The term "best" when selecting people who will join a workforce does not
            
 necessarily mean that the people to hire are those that excel or those that
            
 top among the rest.  The term "best", in terms of human resource hiring,
            
 should mean "the most fit" or "the most suitable" for a particular job.  As
            
 a human resource director, this meaning of the term is very important in
            
 the objective of placing the right employee that can provide the right
            
 The term "best" covers a number of factors when selecting the right
            
 candidate who will fill a job.  It may look into aspects of an individual's
            
 intelligence, capabilities, or abilities.  However, finding a candidate who
            
 excels in these aspects are not the only important requirements that must
            
 be considered to make a candidate eligible in filling a job position.  It
            
 is unfortunate that some human resource staff considers the contrary of
            
 this when qualifying job applicants.
            
 Intelligence, capabilities, and abilities are indeed important when
            
 selecting the right individual who will join our workforce.  But, these are
            
 not the only qualities that define "best" in our selection of job
            
 applicants.  "Best" for us means someone who is capable of handling the
            
 general and overall responsibilities a job entails.  "Best" for us includes
            
 not only the intelligence or abilities of an individual but also the will
            
 of the person to perform his duties.  In fact, intelligence should not be
            
 the foremost criteria to consider a person as the "best" among job
            
 applicants.  Instead, the foremost should be the dedication of an
            
 individual in accomplishing the duties his job entails.  For instance, a
            
 person who is highly intelligent and well-equipped on the technical
            
 requirements of a job may not be the "best" for a job position because he
            
 is lazy.  Comparing to such individual, a person who is not so excellent in
            
 the technical requirements of a job but is very much willing to lear...