The most exceptional people I have met on any field did not had a formal educational process. Formal education though sets in most cases a foundation to start building the professional skills. These professionals are good because of learning as they needed with high motivation or better said with passion. Requiring a degree isnt a guarantee of quality on the work. I am used to the hiring process managed by the workers, not through human resources/bureocracy process that does not know if someone will be able to perform the job. If someone is damn good you will have to find the way to get him/her in.
Joshua ------ Original Message ------ Received: 05:23 AM CEST, 10/25/2012 From: "Lux, Jim (337C)" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Degree > > > On 10/24/12 7:24 PM, "Joe Landman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 10/24/2012 10:20 PM, Josh Catana wrote: > >> As some working in HPC as an indefinite length contractor in the U.S. > >> this topic intrigues me. Even though the company I contract for has me > >> training their new employees and basically in control of everything in > >> their environment for the last 3 years, they refuse to hire me on > >> directly because I don't have a bachelors. > > > >Some of the smartest, most professional, and hardest working people I've > >met don't have advanced degrees. > > > >It sounds to me like a failure in management more than anything else. > > > Sometimes it's a matter of overly conservative policies. > > For instance, people without degrees in the United States often will be > considered non-exempt employees (e.g. Receive overtime at time and a half) > (actually, newly minted bachelors degrees fit in the same bucket, often). > That might raise issues with comparable compensation. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
