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College Degrees: More and More, They're Just a Piece of Paper
Looks like degrees don't mean too much anymore. After reading this article, I was surprised to see that a lot of high-end jobs are not concerned with the level of education an employee has anymore. They are more concerned with the level of experience and the number of publications a person has. As we are all trying to get our degrees to further our education, in the technological world it seems they want people who are experienced, not necessarily educated from accredited universities (obviously this is different in the educational field). It was interesting to read that high-end jobs such as CEOs require degrees, but for other jobs it wasn't necessarily the case because they aren't in the public eye. The higher-end jobs want applicants to have the degrees because the public wants to read about that and see the person is qualified for the job. Check out this interesting read for more details regarding college degrees and job qualifications in the technology fields.
This is very interesting! I'm not sure how I feel about sharing this information with my students, though :) I think that education is important on many levels. If nothing else, obtaining a degree requires a person to explore different ways of thinking and processing information. That being said, I do agree that experience is also a key to performing well on the job!
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