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It's hard to imagine recruiters giving up on the safety net of "minimum degree in X, Y or Z", unfortunately. Even at companies where engineers may be willing t
by makecheck 17y ago
It's hard to imagine recruiters giving up on the safety net of "minimum degree in X, Y or Z", unfortunately. Even at companies where engineers may be willing to dig deeper, résumés still have to clear these basic filters.
Of course, I would prefer if a person's actual experience and education were assessed more carefully. These days, it's conceivable that someone has spent a lot of time on OpenCourseWare, or been self-taught programming through experience with open-source projects; there are a lot of ways to be accomplished without a degree. It is becoming harder to do simple filtering of applicants.
- randallsquared 17y agoFor technical work, contract jobs can let you avoid the filters, and end up hired full-time in a position that has such a minimum degree filter. I did this to get into my current position, and I have "some college" rather than any degree. For this, of course, you have to be good enough that they really want to hire you at the end of your contract.
- antonovka 17y agoWhen every applicant, qualified or not, has a degree, many recruiters stop caring whether an applicant has one or not.