A Checklist Prior to Hiring

cly Traded Companies and Colleges - A Mixtureslackers. However, prior to putting the slackers in
Which Should Be Illegalthat classroom, these colleges have means as to
Students Should Get Into A University Based Ontesting the student to see if he or she has academic
Their Merits / Ambitionsaptitude combined with some intelligence. This is a lot
I don't know if I can actually say the name of thebetter than the first scenario I laid forth.
school which I am referring to as I don't feel likeAnother thing which concerns me is that the
getting sued, but I'm sure you can figure it out: thecompany, sorry I mean university, also has an.edu
college is now allowed to call itself a "University," it isdomain. Not many people know this, but before
a heavily publicly traded stock and you are, essentiallyreceiving that type of domain, a non for profit
allowed to buy a degree. From what I have seen andorganization has to go through the website and
what I will explain in a bit, I firmly believe that theyapprove it. Well, it must have been margarita night
(executive management) do not care about thethe previous day. Not only did they go through the
students. Because I am a recruiter, I have a contactacademics, they learned all about the college and
in the career department. She is great; she is friendly,decided it was in the same league as (names
she is smart and she wants to make a differencerandomly picked to make a point) Columbia,
and make enrollment harder to obtain. Though, thatUniversity of Georgia, UCLA - well, you get the point.
could never happen.It's just a matter of time until they have a football
To reiterate, there is a reason why she could try andteam which is allowed to compete with "real"
try again, but never make a difference. If they don'tcolleges.
enroll more students every fiscal quarter, that isThe worst part of it was that I interviewed two
compared to the last quarter, people are going to sellstudents from the university and, I was truly hoping
the stock as if it were some kind of computer virusthat they would surprise me. Their interviewing skills
in their portfolio. Despite the publicly traded aspect, inwere at a college freshman level and, when I asked
any class you have students who are reallyone if she would be kind enough to send me a
ambitious, treat the curriculum seriously and trulysample writing, she promptly sent it, but her
have a passion for learning, but they have apunctuation was at a high-school level.
disadvantage. They are put in an atmosphere withI just wonder how the CEO of that company can
students who could care less, are going to do thecash his checks and stock options with a smile on his
basics, do not want to improve themselves and areface. All and all, this is quite disconcerting and should
okay with a minimal job. Now, I would agree that thisbe made illegal.
is the case in every college; you always have your