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A credential for a better job.
by zmgsabst 4y ago
A credential for a better job.
- WalterBright 4y agoThen you're facing a career of faking it because you didn't learn the job skills. Also looking forward to complaining a lot about job screening tests, and having your job outsourced. Employers know about the cheaters, fakers, frauds, and charlatans. The job screening tests are an attempt to screen them out. Nobody wants to hire cheaters.
- zmgsabst 4y agoOkay? But the expected value of that choice is positive (for the person making it), as evidenced by the people making it routinely.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe expected value may not turn out to be the positive one imagines it would be. See what I wrote about employers trying to filter them out.
- zmgsabst 4y agoRight — and yet, there’s a positive expected value. I get you don’t like that, but that’s the reality of US labor market, where useless credentialism has crept in: Many people get degrees they don’t want for jobs that don’t need them to check a box and get hired - because as a society, we’ve built that into our hiring. Particularly liberal arts degrees.
- nitwit005 4y agoThe cheaters get hired all the time. Heck, as scandals have revealed, they frequently become corporate CEOs or get elected to high office.
- WalterBright 4y agoI had a college student complain to me recently that many of his fellow students bragged about cheating. I suggested that was a good thing - those were the students you wouldn't want to set up shop with after graduation. 'Cause sooner or later they'll cheat you. It was nice of them to warn you that they're cheaters.