Do you really want to hire people who do exceptionally in Academics?
I think that is a good question variant. I would definitely want to hire someone who is
a) smart (as demonstrated by something I can observe)
and
b) self-disciplined (ditto). I might or might not care about a job applicant's school grades, depending on where the applicant went to school, what I'm hiring for, what the applicant's accomplishments outside of school are, and so on.
In most real-world hiring situations, it is hard to find an applicant who is at the top of the heap in all hiring criteria, so one must make trade-offs. My own taste runs less to regarding school grades as a good sign than to giving applicants work-sample tests, but I tell my children that many hiring processes give very high regard to school grades, so that it is expedient to work to get good grades.
I think that is a good question variant. I would definitely want to hire someone who is
a) smart (as demonstrated by something I can observe)
and
b) self-disciplined (ditto). I might or might not care about a job applicant's school grades, depending on where the applicant went to school, what I'm hiring for, what the applicant's accomplishments outside of school are, and so on.
In most real-world hiring situations, it is hard to find an applicant who is at the top of the heap in all hiring criteria, so one must make trade-offs. My own taste runs less to regarding school grades as a good sign than to giving applicants work-sample tests, but I tell my children that many hiring processes give very high regard to school grades, so that it is expedient to work to get good grades.