Hired for Your Ideas, Not Your Resume?! Really?!

There’s a lot of talk out there – on the blogosphere – that Gen Y should be hired for their ideas, rather than for their resume.  While I understand that the main premise and motivation for this is that many Gen Y-ers have limited experience and a more difficult time landing a job, I am not entirely sure that this is the best and most effective way to develop young talent. 

When I was in college, which was a mere 2.5 yrs ago, I had to hustle.  I worked really hard during my 2^nd and 3^rd years to find internships in industries I was interested in.  I networked really hard and volunteered at Faculty Career Fairs to help me land interviews for internships.  I knew that the corporate world was becoming more competitive each year and that the talent pool was getting larger, so