On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:16:23 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>>> I don't know, man. I thought a degree is pretty much a degree; nobody
>>> seems to care much where you got it.
>>
>> As long as it's from an accredited institution.
>>
>> Often times, they don't even care what it's in.  That you got it is
>> what's important to a lot of HR people.
> 
> Seems most *employers* don't really give a fig what qualifications
> you've got - they just want experience.

But as a gate to that experience, they want a degree.  At least here in 
the US.

I've been self-employed now for nearly 3 years.  In the field I was 
working in for nearly a decade before I was laid off, I was recognized by 
peers as having a firm grasp on the concepts and ideas - and seen inside 
my employer as a leader with expertise.

After the layoff, I applied at companies in that particular field 
(technical certification program management), and with at least one, my 
lack of a degree was cited as a *specific* issue they'd have with hiring 
me.  I didn't even get an interview.

My experience didn't even matter in that instance.

> Then again, given the number of people we've interviewed with "20 years
> of development experience" who can't work out how to perform trivial
> programming tasks like deciding whether a variable is negative or
> positive.
> 
> (Our office favourite is the guy who replied to one question with "oh,
> I'm not sure how you'd do that - I haven't used strings for a while".)

LOL

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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