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Qualifications not everything in getting job done Charles F Moreira Aug 29, 05 1:16pm


Logically speaking, a suitably qualified person should be the best choice for a job. Practically, it doesn't necessarily follow that someone with a seemingly unsuitable qualification can't do a good job, especially not at the upper levels. You'd certainly need aircraft technician qualifications to maintain an aircraft or a medical qualification to be a doctor but while it helps, one doesn't have to be a doctor to manage a hospital or be a qualified pilot to run an airline. Richard Teo asks why the outgoing MAS managing director with an anthropology degree was chosen to head MAS. By the same token I could ask, what why are a bunch of guys from the music industry doing running a profitable budget airline? Besides, cronyism, nepotism, civil-service culture, etc, the suitability of someone to run an airline would depend more on his business acumen, some knowledge of the industry and perhaps the freedom to experiment, make deals and to try new and daring things. At the end of the day, the world increasingly seems to reward smart generalists, rather than highly-qualified specialists. Remember that with its extremely high selection criteria, Microsoft Corporation would most probably not hire Bill Gates if he applied for a job there today. While Gates is no dullard, he dropped out of his education to build Microsoft and as such doesn't have the qualifications the company he co-founded demands today. Neither did Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have university degrees when they founded Apple.

It is the experience and connection that one needs to get through an interview for a job. The graduates who have the qualifications should realize that it is not paper qualification that could land him/her a job. It is how you presented yourself in the interview......which is not by qualification but it is your attitude towards the conversation. This is where the fishing begun to taste in the mind...