Here is a lovely acticle on the subject
When Hiring Entrepreneurs, Ignore Their Resumes
Love the article and its soooo true.
If you look at my resume, I have bachelors degrees in the following subject: Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Education. (yes 3 full degrees lol). I've never worked as a scientist or engineer, though I did teach high school for a number of years.
My work history involves teaching to adults as a contractor, startup consultant, game development and publishing company owner, a few interesting MLMs early on, physical and information security work, direct marketing consultant.Basically I'm a serial entrepreneur, but I accept other challenges to grow as a person or to gain knowledge I can only get by "doing" the work itself as an employee.
If I would have stayed "on track" with an employee mentality from university on, I would only know science and engineering and I would probably be working in a lab somewhere right now instead of leading a couple of successful businesses in subjects that fascinate me, connected to hundreds of really successful individuals etc..Choices eh? lol.
Mostly attitude and passion if you ask me.I've hired many people and found many partners for my ventures and while I DO look at the resumes to get an idea of the person's history, what incites me to hire or partner with them is defined by a 30 minute face-to-face casual talk on ambitions and dreams and what projects they were successful in finishing in their history.In a nutshell, I'd rather work with a person that has an awesome attitude and terrific dreams with some cool successes in his past than the most efficient human calculator around.
When my companies reach maturity, that's when I look for the next challenge. There are plenty of C-level managers from the corporate world that enjoy working at the hum drum of leading a company once all the interesting startup challenges have been overcome1 :)
Cheers!
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