The Output....

I got inspired to write this post when, after reading a company's recruiting policy, I realised a few facts about having a job.
What bugged me the most was the fact that companies "look for results rather than dedication". They expect you to have achieved everything: good grades, positions of responsibilities won through elections, awards, scholarships.............
I'd like to ask this: Does producing results or winning guarantee a better employee? Is it not common knowledge what strange, twisted measures people use to win awards, or to win elections?
So is it necessary that a person who produces results is a dedicated person who will show the same amount of dedication while working for someone? Is it not equally possible that the person will again use unfair measures for his own benefit, to ascend the corporate ladder, while not contributing anything?
The problem lies within the fact that it's really tough for any person to know that a person is capable without asking about results. How can you judge that a person will benefit your venture without knowing what he has achieved in life? but as I have said, this system has its flaws. If a person is dedicated to something, but if he couldn't achieve results in that field, does that make the person incapable? I say no. There are various factors involved in a person's achievement: inspiration, proper guidance, proper background, downright trickery. If a person does not have these, does that mean that he couldn't achieve? Look at Einstein, for example. Just because he couldn't get good grades at school he was labeled a loser and an underperformer. But that did not matter to Einstein. He went ahead, dedicated in his interests, and achieved something so extraordinary, that no one could match till even now. Bill Gates, dropped from college at an early age to pursue a career in computers. His family and friends criticised him for this.
In any society, there will always be underdogs. They will look as if they are good for nothing, but its the contrary that gets revealed, soon. This primarily due to the fact that it is not necessary that a hardworking person will produce good results. But it is true that his hard work will bear fruit someday. They just have to wait for it.
There is a huge need for a criteria to evaluate a person's capabilities, other than just results. People who produce results somehow adapt to the system and are thus able to perform better, with lesser effort.It is really demoralising for a person to not achieve anything despite of his efforts. This would, in turn make him work less harder the next time, because he will expect less. This chain goes on. But there are some who hold on, who keep working despite failures. These are the people who can truly change the world.