said by JustLikeThat:I guess that the HR departments of Twitter and Facebook will have some explaining to do. The guy is now worth $3.2 billion.
At the risk of being off-topic:
Ever since "Personnel" departments turned into "HR", there has been a complete disconnect between them and the industry/workforce. This here is a prime example of why HR as an industry has completely failed and has become a burden, rather than an asset to organizations.
I feel HR as an industry needs reining in by other industries (especially technical industries which HR has near completely no understanding of) to wake up to the realities that everything isn't paper, nor keyword matching, statistics of what personality types work in which roles, nor statistics of who matches the corporate image, etc..
HR these days have acquired so much power over organizations that hiring managers (who may just have practical skills in what they manage) can't really hire directly anymore even if the applicant is a perfect match, they need to "go through the process" which often times can filter these perfect matches out for someone who looks good based off of quantifiable feel-good elements that'd look good on a report.
Consider "HR" initials: Human Resources, which implies that people are being treated as resources which given the dynamics of what defines a person is impossible to do accurately within even 60% given there can be elements like intuition that can't be put on paper.
I think this is good on that guy for showing that even those who "aren't a match" can be successful with great standing. I just hope this sort of thing gets back to the HR industry and demonstrates to them that they're overlooking billions of dollars of potential everyday because of statistics, procedures and word matching.