How many times in life have we come across situations where we would have to judge a person to make a critical decision in our life?
Friends, Spouse, Doctor, Hair Stylist.
Well although some of these we do judge, there are some which we can't are are forced into our lives: Dad, Mom, The bus driver, All the vehicle drivers on the road for that matter heh.
And then comes the real question: how well can you judge a person? Who would have thought back then that the technologies of two high school drop outs like Bill and Steve would run the world now? Any takers?
In my opinion, you cannot judge a book by its cover, neither can you judge it by its content; after all the book is just a product of a pretty resourceful mind. Point being: the book cannot be judged at all.
Quite often (I'd rather say its pretty obvious) a person is judged by his past deeds. Hmm, how good is that?
How far can you look into his past? Especially in this age of swindle and unrest the best option would be to choose the right person for the job by what he is then and not by what he was before, and then simply trust the process. Odds of getting the job done: I'd say it depends on how good you've been to people who put their trust on you.