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Hi Mac great article,
As a Australian and budding 27 year old entrepreneur living in NYC I agree. But this opinion may not be widely put into practice. In my desire to join a innovative corporation or firm as an internal innovator or project manager for the different experience it offers I have come up against some resistance due to lack of the right experience.
But instead of whining I and many others embrace the task of transcending the cover letter and resume job application process through social media, the web and good old fashioned face to face networking in the event to find and wrestle opportunity into our corner. Your point:
Resumes don’t reflect how well a person can think on their feet when a disruptive paradigm comes into play.
Is actuate, one that I have recently tried to overcome by displaying some innovative skills and sharing my ‘B’ List Initial Business Concepts with the world. ‘B’ meaning ones that did not make it through my business selection process, but still have some legs and possibilities. http://bit.ly/BYV60 I don’ t mind sharing as I have enough ideas to go around and at the end of the day, it’s all about execution and I don’t have enough time to do them all.
America for the most part does seem to have ridged paradigms in selecting people to get interviewed. It seems crazy to me that because I don’t have a degree (maybe it is because I don’t 
and I don’t get it) I would be instantly excluded from a majority of job opportunities. (I am not education bashing I want to get my MBA soon). In fairness, with the amount of people applying to jobs it’s hard not to blame HR for culling applicants based on certain selected points. Even as a CEO of my own start up, with my business management experience and great references I would not get a look in.
I also believe there may be a attitude from a majority of HR departments and management teams that believe anyone who considers themselves entrepreneurial is considered ‘flighty’ or not a good employee, “They will leave once they have the experience, lets hire the safe guy who is happy with the pay check, he will do his job and will not leave, meaning we won’t have to replace him in 6 months”. In my experience management must take responsibility to place and nurture operational employees in positions that suit them, and innovative employees in the right positions. Also in my opinion you need a balance of the two employees. because if the entire company is made up of all innovators who would do the grinding operational work day in day out? I believe you definitely need a combination of both to achieve success in business today.
Again thanks for the post.
Cheers
Josh Mackey
Passionate about innovating, communicating, and executing great customer experiences
josh.mackey@ymail.com
