I take people on individual merit not qualifications. Had to tell a couple of grads from fairly respectable universities to piss off recently.
Same here. Being able to accrue qualifications and being able to actually do something are two completely different beasts. I mean, look at the people running the country - typically primary and secondary education at the best schools that money can buy (expensive prep school then Eton, Harrow, etc*) and then a degree from Oxford or Cambridge. Yet still they can't manage the comparatively simple job of getting some PPE to our hospitals - even when equipped with emergency powers that basically mean they can turn around to any suitably equipped factory and say "make this". I could name several people from this thread alone who I'm certain could get the job done inside a week as long as their hands weren't tied behind their backs.
And don't get me started on industry qualifications. Show me someone with a CCNA and I can guarantee that, thrown in at the deep end, they don't have a clue what to do. Back in my ISP days after a few disastrous interviews I started using a CCNA qualification on someone's CV as a marker for the reject pile. Doubly so if they had any Microsoft certifications. My experience has been that if someone is any good they are far too busy doing real work to piss about acquiring a mountain of paperwork from vendor's various training arms. Nowadays the only reason I'd take someone on with a vendor's professional qualification is either if they had a bloody good excuse for having it ("the boss made me get it", "I was young and stupid") or came on a personal recommendation from someone that I trust. OK, I'm probably not really quite that extreme, but damn close.
* Contrary to popular suspicions these schools aren't just old boys clubs. Yes, they are that, but there is also very good teaching
for those who want to learn. I've had friends who went to Eton (posh, rich family), Harrow (scholarship) and Rugby (rich family) who all clearly got a better education than I did from my own, well thought of, grammar school (Gymnasium for our German readers).