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by mguerville 1191 days ago
My smartest employers always said they preferred hiring the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers, or the stars from unheralded companies rather than the employee #987563 from big name logos.

Unfortunately that's not the norm, but I find branding yourself in that way can at least help overcome this challenge in the hiring process (if you get past the screener that only looks at these filters that is)

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> the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers

The problem with hiring from the ivies is these are people who got into ivies. They know how to game the system.