By Danny Cahill, the author of HARPER’S RULES: A Recruiter’s Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship.

Conventional wisdom says you don’t hire recent college grads. They “don’t even know what they don’t know” is the lament. I know. I love that! You hire the guy/woman who “knows everything,” and I’ll take the recent grad who is incapable of whining, who smiles, who laughs, who has so much energy it is contagious, and who is happy to be wherever he or she is.