Harvard Business Review Says Employers Don’t Care Where You Went to College
In the land of gainful employment, your skill set is king.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Harvard Business Review: Employers care about skills, not college name
The college legacy as a defining factor of a student’s future has lost its influence to what students do during their college years.
“A series of decisions that start the moment they secure their spot in the freshman class—from choosing a major and courses to finding internships—increasingly plays a much larger role in life after graduation than where someone goes to college,” Jeffrey J. Selingo wrote for the Harvard Business Review.
That expensive degree isn’t such a bargain in the long run, it seems. It’s good news for social equality, too: humbler institutions can produce graduates with bright futures as long as they take initiative.
As college degrees have become more common, employers aren’t as impressed by the generic graduate. Instead, they want to know the skills, experience, and knowledge that a graduate gained. Cruising through Dartmouth doesn’t compare favorably against the Nebraska graduate who ran a student organization and found a few great internships.
Employers have become more discerning.
“The degree might open the door for a job interview, but employers don’t trust it enough to validate that someone can actually do the job,” Selingo wrote.
That’s good news as far as leveling the playing field. If a student works hard during their college career, employers notice — and reward — their efforts after graduation. The student who struggles to pay for a local college can compete with students whose parents can afford to send them to a nationally known university.
Harvard Business Review: Employers care about skills, not college name (Red Alert Politics)
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Most employers don’t care IF you went to college. 50% of all jobs in America can be done with an 8th grade education.
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Actually, some of us do care. As someone who frequently interviews people for startup jobs often recent grads, If you’ve a Humanities degree from Yale, Oberlin, Berkeley, Mizzou, Vassar or any other fine university which has caved in to multiculturalist bigots, BDS anti-semites, “white privilege” demonizers or the absurd demands of any other identity group, then I’m really happ to know it. A job application from grads from those fine institutions one application I can readily dismiss, given the worthless education there–where, instead of debating opponents, campus culture silences them. So, yes, a college “brand” is quite important. It distinguishes places that prize and teach critical reasoning from those that merely indoctrinate whatever Progressive ideology is current.