Irrespective of whether or not he was highly specialized in some aspect, he had demonstrated a much broader potential to learn and adapt; more than the speciali

Irrespective of whether or not he was highly specialized in some aspect, he had demonstrated a much broader potential to learn and adapt; more than the specialized people they would otherwise be hiring. So it seems like the real reason he wasn't hired was: 1. They might have to pay him more, for his potential (as illustrated by his degree) than they needed to pay some other fellow they could hire. 2. The HR management doesn't really know what to do with smart broadly skilled people. They have well-defined slots for cogs, but generalists are tougher to manage... you can't just shove them into a predefined slot. To me, al it proves is that the industry is not ready/willing to hire a possible generalists (who also happened to have proven that they can learn something and be good at it). The cognitive dissonance making them think that he was "highly specialized" might also have been a possible contributor.