It's perfectly reasonable. For some roles! If you're working for a large consultancy, they rightly won't be interested in you. Why? Because most of their big clients will insist on a certain "level" of qualification/quality of consultant. If they can't send you to most of their client sites, you're not very valuable to them.
That aside, I think it's rubbish to stick to it in absolute terms. I've no issue with the desire for a degree and an uphill battle to provide equivalent competence/experience. As others have stated, a degree can have immense value and the fact that they're not usually on-the-job experience doesn't diminish their value (History of Art aside!). It demonstrates a lot of desirable traits and a large body of knowledge - both of which, if relevant to the position are of great value. Will all people that have a degree be better than those without? Of course not - a ridiculous view of the world! Will all people that don't have a degree and spent that time on the job be of a better calibre? Depends on the position, but in many cases they will never have the depth of knowledge or methodologies, etc. that a degree can burn into you. Many of us on this list are highly motivated self-starters. We should rule ourselves out of discussions about "average" recruits if that's the case, no matter how arrogant that sounds!! There are plenty of examples of extremely successful people who left school at 15 to build an empire - it does not disprove the fact that most people who stay in school until 18 and/or go to uni for another 3/4 years are likely to be better candidates. Being blind to the fact that those skilled 15 year olds exist is laziness or ignorance however. a -----Original Message----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 February 2012 14:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! "This position requires a degree. Sorry. Click." Wow. I can see the college degree being a tiebreaker, but I can only guess the person making that statement doesn't fully understand the tech industry? Or, maybe not having gone to college myself I don't understand that thinking. It could have also been their way of backing out, instead of saying "we changed our minds on our needs" or "we hired from inside". I've heard of that kind of thing before - where what the person not getting hired wasn't told what was really happening. Dave -----Original Message----- ************************************************************************************ WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the same and any copies. "CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
