“We learn awareness and norms of good human being via education, if purpose of education was to provide jobs only, we could be at worst end, you learn about what you don’t know and about what you know, you excel in it by various learning methods, are degrees mandatory? perhaps modern HR is diversifying its strategy”.

If you own or work for organization, you should be concerned about what mechanism your HR department is following, does it focus on hiring most qualified professionals or looking for experts or skilled individuals who can bring diversity regardless they have no extra ordinary qualifications? Managing both classes of professionals seem handy for first world organizations.

Modern HR Strategies and Tactics have been in transformation process towards adopting more realization in inspiring individuals skills, ghost research and efforts, including Google, Microsoft, etc.Tests and interviews are designed to find compatibility between an individual and organization. For instance, if you don’t have specific degree but you claim that you are passionate and may have relevant work experience or you are good at it, you may be invited in an interview to determine your claim.

Smart leaders hire smartly, Jack Ma, Founder and  CEO, Ali Baba Group, one of the emerging top selling company, once quoted about its HR Strategy, “Don’t hire the most qualified, hire the craziest ones”.

In addition, Google Inc has many dropouts in its organization, promoting and accepting their skills without qualifications. Unilever started its trainee and young leadership program by quoting in job requirements that individual must be passionate about what they are applying, qualification criteria is general and doesn’t hold specific conditions of qualifications. Similarly, there are various examples where we can observe such transformation where passionate people have produced good results without any specialized degrees.

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Well, hiring highly qualified may be an asset to a company with more advanced knowledge of management and specific field, he is also supposed to add up new ideas but he can do only do it once he understands the mechanisms, processes or systems which will take time but at the same he will be a cost to a company in good numbers.

Recruiting most skilled individuals leads organization to find right man for a right job, he doesn’t take much time to understand but he likes to renovate and innovate new development in ongoing projects, if he is also trained with management and innovation skills, he may be more quick to learn, progress and benefit organization in more sophisticated way. The idea suit may suit well with specific technical jobs (IT, Engineering, Training ,etc).

Since, there is no parallel of passion whether one has earned it either searching on google or going to any institution, by the end of the day, it’s all about how well you come up with results for organization. Further, it’s a good idea to accept that excellence is not bounded with highly qualified people but it can also be explored with most skilled people. It will be more beneficial for a company or organization to develop its strategy to hire individuals who may not be highly qualified but they are very passionate and know much about what they do for their respective fields.

So when you sit with your HR Professionals, do ask them what changes they have been doing or considering for recruitment and urge them to provide opportunities for those who are passionate and self-learned than hiring only highly qualified or foreign university graduates.

M. Bilal Shaikh

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