Recruit employee by the quality of brain not the academic degree
— The Prestigious Universities are disabling the Genius
Frank July 26, 2014, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Updated in Jan. 5, 2017
Profit-businesses are the important cells of national economy in providing jobs for Nationals’ living making and revenue for Government social governing. We must ensure them in healthy development, thereby, to ensure a stable social living environment.
Also, various non-profit organizations, especially the government agencies, as an integral part of an orderly society, their efficient functioning are indispensable to ensure a habitable social environment.
Consideration in favor of overall community, we must avoid that makes businesses or organizations as charity to care about some incapable people with detriment of systemic productivity, which may easily cause businesses or organizations failures, resulting in more people unemployed, which may cause greater uncharitable.
For this end, no matter it is profit, non-profit or government agencies, that continuously improves systemic efficiency is important and necessary, in this concern, that timely optimization in Human Resource is in playing key role.
However, it would inevitably involve in the replacement of people. In this process, that hires people with a job providing is everyone happy, but, that lay off people with job losing is no one happy but an issue that is extremely difficult to deal with, or even cause bloody conflict.
There no one would like to play a role as wicked to cut off the job of others. On this regard, it is same for any people, no matter which race, which nation, East or West.
For avoiding the sadness of laying off people, it is better to prevent beforehand, rather than to make up afterwards by selecting high quality people.
Only high-quality people can ensure a high quality work with high efficiency in lesser trouble causing.
So, there is necessary to particularly discus how to recruit high quality people.
July 26, 2014, I read article Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League, with subtitle – The nation’s top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.
The writer William Deresiewicz wrote with that: “Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.”
The comments inspired me to think of an issue in long consideration – how to identify people that are perfect in smart and wise.
According to my own experience and the comments of others when working in a research institute, among the people who achieve higher academic degree, especially those grads of Prestigious Universities, only few of them are with better research ability to accomplish some groundbreaking work, most of them are mediocrity that cannot independently complete simple research tasks with no ability for innovation besides to draw tiger by imitating cat with following footprints of others.
Modern studies on the structure of human body prove that it is the structure of brain in determining personal intelligence and behavior. It is high quality developed brain in determining high quality people.
The medical outcome has provided availability for recruiting satisfied people from the level of brain structure.
July, 30, 2012, in the article Recover Mental Disorders by Chinese Medicine, I indicate that: Recent years, scientists have learnt more clearly about human brain structure and work mechanism. Our brain is an extraordinarily complex organ that is made up of many different structures. Any of human behaviors is dominated by the specific population of cells in the brain. Because that mature degree of human brain is varies greatly with big difference from person to person, so, people’s behaviors are also a great difference.
More evidences have showed that various abnormal behaviors or mental disorders are connected with abnormality or atrophy in brain. The antisocial behaviors are also caused by mental disorders, such as reports – Scans reveal differences in brain structure of antisocial teens, Criminal Minds Are Different from Yours, Brain Scans Reveal, and Happiness linked to size of precuneus in Brain.
We can speculate that, even if, people have no significant behavioral problems, but, the character of each individual is also in big different, some are impulse and radical in depressed mood and lack of compassion; some are sober and rational in happy mood in full of compassion. Those are also due to the differences in brain structure, it will certainly affect people’s work ethic, such as, in the workplace, some people work mindlessly, and some people work full-heartedly in whatever they engaged.
Modern studies show that Brain Cells can regenerate.
The regeneration of brain cells is the foundation that we can remember those we have studied and experienced in the past and can remember those we will be studied and experienced in the future.
The wide range of studies and social experiences will promote generation of new populations of brain cells, thereby to perfect brain in the structure. And more brain cells in memorizing knowledge and experiences, especially the experiences from successes or failures will provide more references for logical reasoning; it is the prerequisites for making a reasonable judgment with perfect decision making, and thereby to make correct practice.
The accumulation of the knowledge and experiences is wisdom.
It is that more in success less in mistake with ability in perfect predictability made a person as Sage.
If a person is lack of extensive reading and social experiences, the person will fall into a situation as that of watching sky by sitting in the bottom of a deep well, which will largely narrow the field of the vision, and thereby limit the scope and the depth of the reasoning. Thus, when faced with intractable social problems, the person cannot flexibility come up with feasible solutions. It will be more harmful for those who are on the key position of the government or any management.
Only the people with well developed brain in rich knowledge and experiences are able to make rational reasoning with reasonable judgments and perfect practices, but, the brain defectives are not.
Here, I would like to point out that, any organizations or communities cannot be absolutely fair and reasonable, it will provide enough reason for those brain defectives complaints endlessly with upset bickering to make an organization ungovernable with achieves nothing.
We must identify those brain defectives out. We do not need to tolerate them mess up our living environment and resulting in unnecessary waste of social resources.
In the actual process of hiring people, it is not easy to identify those brain defectives out.
In Canada, also in many other countries, the government specializes in providing free training for job-seeker in resume writing, and interview-skills – interviewers often asked questions, and how to answer wittily.
We cannot simply deny the positive side of such services. However, we also cannot deny its negative effects potentially, the low-quality people are clever dressed into high-quality one, so that the employers cannot prevent to be cheated by job seekers in low quality – hired a hot yam that scalds hand to pain, incompetent at work, but, not easy to kick out.
Therefore, in the process of recruiting employee, besides considering the qualification of academic degrees, to view resume, to interview with questions, the significant part, as my view, it is to examine the quality of brain of candidates by ability testing intellectually and physically, for example:
1…By abbreviating a certain length article to a shorter brief one in simplest words with keeping the original meaning as much as possible to test the abilities in writing and wording.
Neat and beautiful handwriting shows that writer’s brain and nerve is well functioning so that hand can well follow brain’s commanding signal without tremble. The good rhetoric indicates that the brain is efficient enough in logically think.
The rigorous logically think is the prerequisites for doing any job properly.
2…By glancing or listening to a group of over ten random numbers then writing down from memory to test the capacity in concentration and short-term memory.
Good results suggest that attention can be well focused with a good short-term memory; it shows that brain well developed.
3…By threading the buttons together with Needle and Thread in certain time, to test the ability of hand-brain coordination.
Threading buttons faster is a sign of good hand-brain coordination.
4…By watching videos in violent or sorrow to test the reaction of compassion.
No feeling of compassion is a sign of defective brain. A person less in compassion cannot make a perfect job with a potential stirring up trouble in workplace.
5… The harmful hobbies, such as, the smokers, alcoholics are also the sign of the brain defective.
Such people are unable to properly self behavior control.
6…The sense of humor
Easy in laugh, witty humor language and response, is also the symbol of well developed brain in high intellectual level. Humor is the most advanced intellectual action.
A depressed people will be no sense of humor, but will be endlessly complaining. They are not only in low efficiency of their own work, but also will badly influence others, to make others in depressed state.
7…Chatting
An intelligent person can well follow the topic and exactly answer for whatever asked with simplest words. Otherwise is a mental defective, at least in somewhat.
No matter what the topic, a person with well-developed brain can give convincing insights.
And so on…….
Such skills are very simple and being often used in doing daily tasks, but less people can do perfectly, especially those people of brain development is not matured, or harmed by bad living habits, such as, smokers, alcoholics.
In fact, those harmful hobbies are also the sign of brain not well developed, so that they are unable to proper self-behavioral control.
Those brain development normal people, in general, will be able to do their best in whatever they engaged in, and will be able to continuously concentrate on their daily jobs or professional studies, rarely complaint. And more importantly, they will be good at cooperation with others, this point is very important for well accomplishing most of work.
On the contrary, those whose brain is in non-normal will be the players of troublemakers with endless complaining due to they are sustained in depressed mood under defective brain. The worse is that they would badly influence others by causing a depressing work environment.
Under the impact of Crowd psychology or Herd Instinct, the bad work ethic of brain defectives will misleading the people surrounding them, thereby to lower down the efficiency systematically.
Ensure to hire high-quality brain is extremely important for those who work as management.
If the mental defectives take the position in management, they would harm entire system, they may lure people to bully others with doing everything possible.
For the candidates who are with outstanding ability, we should hire directly without the restriction of the academic degree. Since that in the Era of the knowledge explosion, there are many channels for knowledge updating, which are not limited to the schools. On other hand, as mentioned above, in some extent, the rigid mechanized teaching model of schools may stifle the creativity of the students.
Talk to here, we may say that, in simply put, so called corporate management or social governance is to select a group of brain to rule certain group of brain for finishing purposeful tasks by meeting the brain cells that are responsible for selfishness of animal instincts to drive the brain cells that are responsible to exert acquired skills by regulations to trigger the brain cells that are responsible to abide social order under the conscious of self-esteem.
— Frank July 27, 2014, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Ivy League miseducation
By Anthony Zurcher Editor, Echo Chambers
25 July 2014Last updated at 15:58 ET Comments (42)
http://www.B,B,C.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28492894
Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Ivy League students.
In a lengthy article in the latest issue of the New Republic, former Yale associate professor (and Columbia graduate) William Deresiewicz says that the prestigious private colleges dotting the US, particularly in the Northeast, are creating a class of entitled “zombies”.
The author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to Meaningful Life, writes:
“Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.”
Ivy League colleges and their ilk, says Deresiewicz, have created an education-industrial complex that processes the children of privilege from cradle to diploma and beyond.
Private and affluent public primary education, test-prep courses, “enrichment” programmes, volunteer service projects, international travel, music lessons, sports activities – all the high-cost building blocks of the perfect college application – put crushing pressure on the upper middle class and their offspring.
The ones who successfully navigate the college winnowing process are near perfect – or at least think they are. He says he observed the results in the students he taught.
“The prospect of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them,” he writes. “The cost of falling short, even temporarily, becomes not merely practical, but existential. The result is a violent aversion to risk.”
College shouldn’t be this way, Deresiewicz writes. Instead of four years of career training, it should be preparation for a thoughtful, well-examined life.
Few elite university students have had to deal with failure or real adversity, William Deresiewicz writes
What of attempts by admissions officials to achieve classroom diversity? While some colleges may give preference to minority applicants, Deresiewicz says, ethnic diversity only covers up socio-economic homogeneity.
“Visit any elite campus across our great nation, and you can thrill to the heart-warming spectacle of the children of white businesspeople and professionals studying and playing alongside the children of black, Asian and Latino businesspeople and professionals,” he says.
His solution is to democratise higher education, freeing it from the stranglehold of elite colleges and the crushing debt that such degrees often bring.
“High-quality public education, financed with public money, for the benefit of all: the exact commitment that drove the growth of public higher education in the postwar years,” he writes.
In the meantime, he says, parents should consider sending their kids to public universities or small religious or liberal arts colleges where they can be challenged by a more authentic diversity of experiences.
Deresiewicz’s article has provoked a fair amount of discussion and debate, even within the pages of the New Republic (which, many commentators have enjoyed pointing out, is staffed predominantly by Ivy League graduates).
In an article on the New Republic’s website, JD Chapman, an academic director of a Roanoke, Virginia high school, says that most admissions offices he deals with are keen on identifying and admitting the unconventional students Deresiewicz says they ignore.
In addition, he says, Deresiewicz relies too much on his own anecdotal evidence for taking the pulse of today’s youth.
“My own experience suggests that thoughtful, curious people in this age group are widely prone to confused self-loathing no matter where they are.”
The website IvyGate solicited comments from current Columbia students and, needless to say, they weren’t particularly thrilled with the article.
“Deresiewicz does a fantastic job of ignoring the reason why security (not wealth, not fame, SECURITY) has displaced cultivating the mind as the number one takeaway Kids These Days want from college,” Alison Herman says. “The Great Recession ripped away the mental, and often material, safety net that’s necessary to prioritise Learning to Think over, say, learning C++.”
Osita Nwanevu, a University of Chicago senior interning at Slate,writes that Deresiewicz places too much emphasis on the transformative power of higher education.
“To believe that a college – Ivy or otherwise – can confer intellectual benefits in four years that you won’t be able to attain at some point over the course of the next 60 is to believe in magic,” he writes.
The problem, writes Chris Lehmann in In These Times, is that Deresiewicz doesn’t go far enough in his recommendations.
“Deresiewicz is unable to wean himself from the care and feeding of our self-anointed intellectual elite, nor from the bedrock conviction that all schemes of social improvement must be about them,” he writes.
Lehmann advocates nationalising higher education and slashing tuition. He admits it’s a long-shot, but so is Deresiewicz’s “expectation that better-trained meritocrats somehow will rescue the rest of us”.
This don’t-send-your-kids-to-Ivies plan only works if everyone buys into it, writes the Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri. In a tongue-in-cheek column, she notes the conundrum facing well-meaning parents:
“If some people don’t get the memo about Massive Structural Shifts in How We Are Educated, their kids will get into Ivy League schools in your kids’ place, and all the employers who did not read the article will keep assuming that going to an Ivy League school is a mark of quality and hire them instead.”
And that, as they say in the hallowed halls of Yale, would stink.
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