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Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google is a smart guy. He is in charge of hiring people at Google. He recently sat down with the NY Times and talked about what he looks for in a candidate...his answers may surprise you. Read on...

“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people.”

Too many colleges, he added, “don’t deliver on what they promise. You generate a ton of debt, you don’t learn the most useful things for your life. It’s [just] an extended adolescence.”

Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it).

Read the rest of the interview HERE.