I interviewed for a job and had two and a half years experience doing the job I put in for. I am currently working toward a degree in a related field. The person who got the job had a degree in a nonrelated field but no experience whatsoever in the job applied for. Would like to know if a degree always gets the person the job even though the degree has nothing or no relation to the job?
2007-02-18 17:17:39 · 3 answers · asked by Carrie C 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I am 56 and now retired, and I'll share something with you. Often people are not hired for their skills in many jobs, but are hired if they fit with the boss' personality, if they are handsome/beautiful and make the place look good, are not so smart so the company can continue to cheat, are submissive so they can be programmed by the company. Degrees are very important in specific areas such as teaching, nursing, dr's and such, but even then, when you compete for a job, I don't think that the first talent they look at is skill, it is so much more often how you fit in with the existing staff or teaching partner or ?????????? I call it more the kiss butt system of hiring. Don't look down on yourself if you don't get a job. You have no idea what they really want. I was a teacher who had the top scores almost every year in my classroom for the standardized tests and the students like me, but the principals certainly didn't nominate me for teacher of the year because I was not a kiss butt. and never will be. The teacher of the year almost every year was a quite incompetent teacher who made the school/principal look good. Kiss butt.
2007-02-18 17:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although a college degree is good, some employers are narrow minded and they go by who you know and not what you know and have a degree in. Some employers are prejudice and will put whites with no experience and so are in stupid in a job instead of a minority who is qualified.
2007-02-19 01:27:09 · answer #2 · answered by 111 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Most of the time its quite the opposite.
They might have chosen the other person for another reason?
2007-02-19 01:23:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋