[AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

[Phillip Grasso]

1) personal character matters most, team fit, personality, learning
ability, cognitive capability etc.
2) real work experience
3) degree / certification.

In order of difficulty evaluating and getting solid data goes from 1->3

So what most employers do is evaluate 3->1. Mostly due to poor data quality
the other way.

University degrees do help get in the door and the real experience comes
from on the job experience and motivation of individual to learn (inside
and outside of work).  Its more about the individual, augmenting a
university education adds to their capability and gives them important
benefit of learning critical thinking. Whilst it is entirely possible and
common to learn this without university, it improves the likelihood (not a
guarantee) of those critical thinking skills.
On 6 Mar 2015 5:09 pm, "Robert Hudson" <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

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