@bhaydama It's not hiring per se, it's about attention and grabbing it. A bunch of CV's/resume's will come in via email and if you're presented with a bunch of Hotmail/Gmail email addresses and one from Harvard - you're going to look at the Harvard one first. Tell me you wouldn't consider looking at something if it stood out from the crowd?
It's the first step that counts, that's my argument. Forget everything else; we're in the digital age now. It's not what you know but who you know - and if you're proven to be from an intellectual powerhouse like a major US university, that's going to stand out like a sore thumb.
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