What you are calling "recruiting" I was assigning to HR. If engineering wants an ad run, then HR can help as long as they don't touch the real content of the a

What you are calling "recruiting" I was assigning to HR. If engineering wants an ad run, then HR can help as long as they don't touch the real content of the ad. When resumes come in, they can hold them up to the light, read them upside down, wave them with a magic wand, but under no circumstances should they make any significant decisions on the content. HR couldn't tell the next Turing award winner from a grade school video game player. Who does college scouting for the NBA? College cheerleaders? Not exactly. E.g., there's Gleason. That's A. Gleason. Since he never got a Ph.D., he shouldn't be a college prof, right? I mean, ask any college cheerleader! Instead, early in his career, maybe before he finished his Ph.D., he knocked off one of Hilbert's problems and was made a Fellow at Harvard and remained at Harvard for the rest of his career. Just cannot hope to find Michelangelo to paint the ceiling if have house painters doing the first cuts on the applications.