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When you're given a resume, do you look at the education, other that briefly? If it doesn't sound like an online program (e.g. University of Phoenix) I doubt mo
by djsumdog 6y ago
When you're given a resume, do you look at the education, other that briefly? If it doesn't sound like an online program (e.g. University of Phoenix) I doubt most would notice.
But then again, I never see resumes until someone asks me to do a phone screening. Even then, I kinda glance at them enough to figure out which set of questions to pull out.
So I guess that decision is made well before me. Getting to the actual phone/in-person interview is the challenging part. I've discovered it's often more about who you know than anything else.
- skeeter2020 6y agoWhen I see degrees from universities I've never heard of I assume they're diploma mills and look them up. Often they're not but fill a particular niche in learning or circumstance. This is the major failing with the US system IMO, in Canada the word "university" has a much stronger legal definition so there is more trust in it. Similar to what happened to the title "Engineer" when programmers started using it* *I have a MSc in Software Engineering but I am not a PEng
- mobattah 6y agoWow, I hope to never work with you. You value things that should not be valued in tech. We care about competence, not credentials. I've interviewed dozens of engineers. Never once looked at their education or gave it any weight. I assess them myself, no need to defer. Selecting for people from schools you've heard of is probably the wildest thing I've heard in my career.
- vulcan01 6y agoIt depends on the number of applications. If the number of applications is unmanageable, then credentials can be a useful first filter. This is also why the SAT/ACT is still important in college admissions: they get a lot of applications, and they need to filter out some applicants to make it more manageable.