Quit college for cycling?

What's the issue with that? In the past I've employed people who're qualified up to the nines but have as much common sense as a retarded gibbon. Qualifications are all well and good (even qualifications in the field that they people want to work in) but real-life experience is equally as important.

Naturally.

first you dismiss qualifications straight off, and then now you state that they're equal with experience? anyway, my exclamation was more that you would completely disregard something so significant so indiscriminately and that i feel sorry for whoever your applicants might be, if that were the case. i agree that qualifications don't automatically bestow common sense/general intelligence etc, but your approach seems a bit extreme.