ASK WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO, NOT WHAT DEGREE THEY HOLD

 ASK WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO, NOT WHAT DEGREE THEY HOLD

The things worth doing rarely fit neatly into a planning cycle.

The deepest shift needed in selection of people for recruitment is the simplest.

We have to stop asking what certificate someone holds.

We have to start asking what they can actually do. Project based assessment, demonstrated competency, applied evaluation- these have been on the reform agenda for years. They keep getting deferred as they are hard to standardise. That difficulty is exactly why they matter

The things worth doing rarely fit neatly into a planning cycle

Ipsita Gauba in Times of India 18June2026