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Parents ask... do employers? I would guess not.
by chrisseaton 4y ago
Parents ask... do employers? I would guess not.
- watwut 4y agoParents are the ones who pay.
- Nasrudith 4y agoYes and no. Unaccredited are a red flag but proven abilities shows it was legitimate enough. Still makes it harder to get through the door with an unaccredited degree. Which is reason to care.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Still makes it harder to get through the door with an unaccredited degree. But who is checking? I’ve never asked myself if someone’s degree is accredited. I wouldn’t even know how to check if I cared.
- mattkrause 4y agoI'm pretty sure I've seen it on government job postings. In fact, many of the federal CS jobs require ABET-accredited degree programs, which is annoying because many of the better programs aren't (Stanford and CMU, for example). Accreditation may matter for immigration (some places give extra points to people with degrees), possibly student loans, and things like that.
- astura 4y agoAre you involved in hiring? Because I check the degree of every single resume I review, I have to. The other day I got a resume from a candidate who has a degree from Albany State University which I never heard of. So I pulled up their website and go to the "Accreditation" link and saw that it's accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> So I pulled up their website and go to the "Accreditation" link But… why? What do you then do with information? Reject people if their college isn’t accredited? Why?
- astura 4y agoYes, because it's company policy. Even if it wasn't comment policy - when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience who do you interview/hire - the guy with the mail-order "degree" or the guy who has an accredited degree?
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Yes, because it's company policy. But why? Lol what does it achieve? What’s the point? > when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience Maybe look at what they can do not where they learned it? How do you evaluate self-taught and people with no degrees? Does no degree beat non-accredited or not? And here’s another question - why do you trust the accreditors? What do they know that colleges don’t? How do you evaluate an accreditor?
- astura 4y agoYou're asking me about a company policy I had no part in. But why? Lol what does that achieve? Making you look clever on the internet? Concern trolling? If there's no point in anything and nothing is ever achieved then why does anyone spend time and money on getting an education and including it in their resume? Maybe there is a point and something is achieved after all. EDIT: >How do you evaluate self-taught and people with no degrees? I don't, I literally just told you company policy is Jr candidates must have an accredited degree. I have no idea what nonsense you're rambling on about. The question was who is checking degree accreditation and that's what I answered.
- chrisseaton 4y ago
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoIf your recruiting pipeline isn't doing a background check, you need a new recruiting pipeline.
- chrisseaton 4y agoI still don’t get it - why would you check accreditation as part of a background check? Like why do you care? What do you do with the information? Why do you care what an accrediting body thinks about anything?
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoAre you seriously asking why you should care that a candidate is possibly lying about or misrepresenting their credentials and skills to you?