There’s an interesting corollary to the whole “people from brand-name schools optimise for prestige by default” — if you’re a startup, you can’t afford to hire people who took prestigious jobs (and in fact it may be a negative signal).
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Rather, you want to hire people who worked at non-prestigious places, or who went to less-prestigious schools, who are underpriced by the market.
But I think this is fairly intuitive and rather well known.
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Concrete example: in countries with a large outsourcing sector, build a hiring process that can filter for good people at bad outsourcing firms. They exist, but it's not likely that many recruiters are looking for them.
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Serious question: if you replaced 'mimetic trap' with 'peer pressure', would there be any loss of information?
(My writer's brain is doing the substitution to test if this is an instance of 'name checks Girardian theory to make simple idea sound more insightful'.)
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