Ask recruiters to look for a specific problem-solving ability instead of industry experience.

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Instead, look for people with a specific problem-solving ability.

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The country was tired of polarization, and Mitt could provide a problem-solving antidote, a demonstrated ability to bring a Republican solution -- the individual mandate -- to a problem that Democrats traditionally cared most about.

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