are qualifications essential to find a job?

Answer 1

Depends on the job you are looking for.

If you want to increase your earning potential qualifications help enormously. Unless, of course you are an entrepeneur - then you might just succeed anyway.

Answer 2

This depends on what you want to do, and even then you can work you way up within a business.

If you want to be a professional then yes an education is very much needed, a certain level of understanding is needed for some jobs and qualifications are the only thing you have that tells a boss what you can and can't do.

BUT if you want to be a head chef (you can tell i do kitchen work) then it is possible to work your way up the "ladder."
Many jobs now offer an "in house" training scheme or NVQ's etc.

Where i work the general manager started off as a KP (kitchen port, bus boy, doing the dishes) he then became a chef and things went from there.

It is hard work either route, there is rarely an "easy" way around things if you want to get some where.

Answer 3

I would say it depends upon your age.

One of the most striking targets the current government administration set for itself was for 50% of 18-30 year olds to hold a degree by a certain date (Don't quote me, but I think it's 2010).

One impact of that target would be to increase the likelihood of building what's called a 'knowledge economy', a sort of post-manufacturing economy where the types of jobs are more reliant upon highly skilled labour. However, another impact of the target is to inflict a kind of qualification inflation upon the job market.

If half of everyone in your age range holds a degree and you don't then clearly, going for job interviews is going to be a bit crap. Equally, if you want to differentiate yourself from everyone else then getting a degree is no longer enough if half of the population you're competing with also has one.

So, I guess it depends upon what job you want, how much choice you want over it and what level of security in that job you want to have in the future.

All of the qualifications in the world do not guarantee that you will be able to find a job, keep it, or be happy in it. By contrast, certain skills such as plumbing can lead to the most consistent employment for a relatively small amount of initial training.

Answer 4

Its a vicious circle!

If you have qualifications you are told you need experience. But, you cant get the experience without the qualification.

However, there are jobs that need neither experience nor qualification. The problem is you would neither want the job nor the pay that goes with it.

Except, perhaps, that of Prime Minister - where ignorance is bliss!

Answer 5

yeah thats true you know I got really good qualification and cant get even the job that matches the qualification requirements some vancany are ******* dick heads

Answer 6

Nowadays yes but you also need experience so volunteer to do your job as well as get qualifications.

Answer 7

every job I've had i lie my way into, when your in you have to keep head down **** up and graft so when you get found out you can do the job. I did it once and landed a job as a line manager when i got found out they had stern words with me but i was there 5 years until they went bankrupt.

Answer 8

My most valuable qualification is my Driving License.

It's possibly the most overlooked too!

Answer 9

depends on what you want to do..
if you want to be a doctor or a lawyer and such, then YES you do..
if it's for a career in macdonalds, then i guess, NO!

sometimes it's not what you know, it's who you know.
i have a lot of friends who got their careers through people they know (some work in newspapers and others in the music industry)

Answer 10

depends what job ur wanting to do i work with children ahve gcse,s but nothing in child care but still work in nursery as im planning to train on job