Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoA degree shows that you can complete a long-term multi-phase project involving a large variety of tasks and disciplines while following the rules established by the organization.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So can a resume, or work history
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All a work history says for lots of jobs is that you followed dress code and showed up. It doesn’t mean you accomplished anything.
And it often says nothing about your ability to perform tasks unsupervised or willingness to delay graticifation. Someone working for 4+ years without payment to prepare for the future appears more forward-looking to lots of employers than the person who went to work straight out of high school.
Is it always fair? No. But all else being equal I’ll hire someone with a degree every time, so when I have limited time and 300 resumes with only 25 of them have degrees, guess which 275 I’m gonna instantly eliminate?
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, you can absolutely do that. That being said, you can literally buy degrees, you can also scrape by and learn nothing and still wind up with a degree. If an adult cant perform their job unsupervised than they aren’t a good candidate regardless.
If someone maintains a job it shows that they can at least do what is required to not get fired which means some kind of work performance is done. You can’t just show up with a tie and do nothing, if you can than the business itself has problems. My whole point is only that degrees are way overvalued over other means, and you made my exact point. Discounting hundreds of people who could have more direct knowledge on what you’re doing over someone who could have never touched a live process because of a piece of paper.
You’re just cheating yourself out of good candidates because you feel the process is too hard, which overall hurts the business.