[AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

[Robert Hudson]

On 6 March 2015 at 16:58, Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> I've worked for three different places at once when I worked as a pilot
> (fixed wing) and doing two other casual jobs to pay the bills.
> It sucked, waaaay too difficult to manage but I guess that's each to their
> own
>
> I am in Brisbane, my current temporary-full time employment contract
> concludes on March 28th, my employer knows I'm seeking further
> opportunities.
>
> After some personal brainstorming the most practical thing to do is find
> full-time ongoing employment. I've applied for a job each week for the last
> three months, with no luck. I have 14 years experience which is an
> experience equivalent to a degree + extras but it looks like employers are
> looking for the word "Degree" on my CV, and I don't have that, so I'm going
> to see what's required to get a degree with RPL with the intention of
> making myself "more hirable".
>

In my experience, a degree gets you in the door for an interview, but your
personality, work experience/history and ability to "pass" an interview
will get you the job.

You generally can't get the job without getting to the interview.  And it
sucks that many places use such an arbitary filtering method - the question
you then get to ask yourself is if that's really somewhere you wanted to
work in the first place. :)
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