"Hire for talent, train for skill" means to screen for more general intelligence and problem-solving aptitude rather than specific buzzwords. You want smart peo

"Hire for talent, train for skill" means to screen for more general intelligence and problem-solving aptitude rather than specific buzzwords. You want smart people who will pick up anything you throw at them quickly, not just people who have hit all the keywords in their resume. It may sound squishy, but it's really not. You can tell smart people pretty quickly from talking through logical problems with them. Dumb people will ask irrelevant questions and want you to hold their hand and walk them through it. Smart people will ask smart questions and deduce a path to the solution.