"lower your standards" If I understand your intent, I would prefer to read this ...

		antidoh on Sept 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft: Shortage of tech workers in the US beco... "lower your standards" If I understand your intent, I would prefer to read this as "widen your standards." You're not deciding to intake less capable people. Rather, you're deciding to intake people of more varied specific experience.

the phrase that I use is "favoring aptitude over experience"