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Ask HN: Is a degree required to get a marketer job position?
Do you usually ask candidates for Business or Marketing Degree? Whom would you better hire: person with appropriate degree or self-taught?
Experience is the more-less equivalent for both candidates, as well as soft skills.
- gamechangr 10y ago"Equivalent" - is a tricky word. If you can't tell the difference in the quality of the work, then I would go with the degree. All it really implies is that the candidate can stick with a plan and follow through. In real life, many of the self-taught candidates are substantially better. If you're self taught and your work looks just like a someone who went for 4 years of mindless classwork - that's not in your advantage.
- JSeymourATL 10y agoRyan Holiday, dropped out of college -- became head of marketing for American Apparel while still in his 20s > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Holiday
- masonic 10y ago... and look how well that worked out.