Beyond paper credentials

THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: When hiring executive staff, how open would you be, as an employer, to ditching altogether academic qualifications as an indicator of cognitive ability and potential? How would you assess an aspiring employee?

Kenny Yap Kim-Lee Executive Chairman & Managing Director Qian Hu Corporation Ltd

EVEN though I am the youngest and the only graduate among my siblings, I have always regarded my brothers as smarter and more resilient than me. As circumstances would have it, their classroom was the family pig farm, and I fully respect them for their sacrificial love for the family, and their success as farmers, fathers and great human beings.