Anyone have an aversion to hiring from elite colleges? I've been burned by people fresh out of _______ University who think they know everything and are ready for the corner office. Anyone else?

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AAD, that's not illegal. I also discriminate against people who go to shitty schools.

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Nope. We actively try to recruit from elite colleges. Have had great experiences with people from Princeton, GW, Purdue, Stanford, oxford, trinity, and Columbia

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No designer positions sadly. Mostly business operations, media, and programmatic right now

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I wouldn't be averse to a particular school. Just look for someone with a motor and passion regardless of background. That's usually worth more than academic background (over a certain threshold)

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lol I think they'll be fine

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Purdue is elite?

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Yeah, I'm torn. I went to one, and got the same kind of flack when O was young. But now I see it. Disruptive.

I went to Purdue.. 12 years ago... are you hiring senior designers?

Went to one of those schools. And I hate that mentality. It's something I've learned to distance myself from.

Btw, that's also straight up discrimination, just saying:)

Wut?

You're discriminating people based on your negative bias towards the ivy league school they went to. Or is something else unclear...

I didn't call it illegal, just discriminatory

I find most of the kids from the top universities and ad courses in the UK have come from reasonably comfortable backgrounds and in general aren't natural problem solvers. A skill vital in the creative department. If you've had to solve problems in your life, you have skills that the greatest colleges on the planet can't teach.

I agree with CD1. My worst behaved, laziest, entitled,and most problematic team members have come fresh from Ivy League schools. One group in entry level sales informed me they should be doing the strategy work because they thought reaching out for new business was beneath them. I don't exclude candidates, but I do take extra time in interviews now the assess their entitlement and initiative.

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