Re: Untrainable?

[Eric Crump <wleric@showme.missouri.edu>]

On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Jim Bell wrote:
> Then how do you set up your program to handle fairly the occasional 
> worker who, considering the resources at hand, seems to be untrainable?

Nobody on my staff is unteachable or untrainable because the primary 
criterion for hiring is interest--passion, even--for the job. I'll even 
cheerfully overlook conventional  *dis*qualifications (like poor GPAs, 
moderate writing skills, lack of prior tutoring experience, etc. --even 
kept a fellow on the staff last year who'd flunked out) if I see evidence 
of commitment to the project. 

I've had people who lost interest along the way & I simply didn't offer 
them a job the next semester. 

Seeems to work...

--Eric Crump