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Degrees vs. Experience
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Treblemaka
President, BYNKRadio.com (Retired)
If a corporation is hiring young people and is doing sucession planning they will want a young person with a degree with very little experience so that they can mold them.
If they are looking for a standard expendable cog in the machine then experience is the most important part.
If they are looking for a standard expendable cog in the machine then experience is the most important part.
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Treblemaka
President, BYNKRadio.com (Retired)
A degree will get you in the door, experience will take you further once you are in the door. I got my bachelors and was like "fukk getting a masters". Just did my job well, networked, got my experience up, and now I'm an Asst. Vice President and got people with a masters answering to me.
They took two years out the game to get a masters, I used that two years to keep myself hot and gain experience
What career field do you work in? And what industry is your company in?
Banking and Finance, I'm on the corporate side, not retail(community banking, branches)
beenz
Rap Guerilla
these days degrees seem like a scam. just another way to make you an indentured slave with the way these student loans are going.
filial_piety
Banned
Experience is better to get the job, a degree is better to advance in the job.
That's not a hard and fast rule, but it's true for the most part
That's not a hard and fast rule, but it's true for the most part
SheWantTheD
Veteran
You can become an engineer without the degree. Many people who taught themselves code go on to becoming software engineers.Certain careers absolutely require a certain degree. You're not becoming lawyer without a JD, engineer without a engineering degree, teacher without a degree and teaching license, etc.
This is right. Degree will get u in the door but experience will get u farther in the house. With us being black, we need as much experience and education as well as training, certifications, etc. as we can get. We need it all...and a lot of times that's just for an mediocre to a somewhat decent paying job. We don't have that privilege.A degree will get you in the door, experience will take you further once you are in the door. I got my bachelors and was like "fukk getting a masters". Just did my job well, networked, got my experience up, and now I'm an Asst. Vice President and got people with a masters answering to me.
They took two years out the game to get a masters, I used that two years to keep myself hot and gain experience
no nikkas at my office/division in the financial side, like not a single one. the only nikkas are either janitors or work out of the building.
I'm a summer student but almost everyone makes 100k+ (remainder are 75k+) and it's entirely white, Indian, with a couple Asians here and there.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
another thing when it comes to experience vs degrees. experience, you get paid to learn. with degrees, you're paying to learn.
References/Experience>>>Degrees
All you gotta do is get them to BELIEVE you're the best person for the job via all your stops or people gushing over you. Depending on the field (unless it's specialized or something) long as you have foundational skills, you can learn the nuances of truly being effective at what you do.
I wish I knew that before I started college.
All you gotta do is get them to BELIEVE you're the best person for the job via all your stops or people gushing over you. Depending on the field (unless it's specialized or something) long as you have foundational skills, you can learn the nuances of truly being effective at what you do.
I wish I knew that before I started college.
wrong. they NOW value that piece of paper over experience to some degree. meaning if you have all the experience in the world in most fields. they CAN'T even look at your resume to find out if you have the experience if "BS or BA" isnt already on the resume. Literally their HR depts hiring system wont even allow most of those non degree resumes to get thru.
But if you pay attention to job qualifications. every company is asking for both and most positions are not trying to pay you what you deserve if you did actually have a ton of experience and a degree or two.
experience helps a ton after you have that degree and are stuck in the position you're currently in. if you have x amt of years of experience doing the job as well as more experience in other things in a job you would like to move too. your odds of getting hired to the new job goes up by a lot.
let me fix that above statement.
not references. it should say IF you know someone in the company that can pull strings(hiring manager, HR, etc.) then that will trump experience and the degree.