Employers value skills over college degrees
By Les Christie, CNN Money
NEW YORK — Forget about your GPA or paying for that graduate degree. What employers really care about are the skills you bring to the table.
While the vast majority of employees believe their college education has helped them in their career, 72 percent said getting trained in a specific skill is more highly valued by their employer, according to a survey of more than 2,000 adults by job listing site Glassdoor.
“Employees with college degrees believe that their education helped get them through the door, but about half say it has no relevance to the work they’re actually doing,” said Rusty Rueff, Glassdoor’s career and workplace expert.
The survey also revealed just how little attention employers pay to an applicant’s college performance, with 80 percent of respondents saying they had never been asked about their grade point average during a job interview.
College degrees don’t mean much anymore. They’re so easy to get now, it doesn’t necessarily indicate a superior intellect, nor any kind of work ethic or initiative.
Dog. On Average a Bachelors degree earners make 40 to 50% more then just High School Diplomas. Or $30k versus $48k.
rock, how old is that statistic, and which government agency did it come from? It’s OLD.
Currently, kids are graduating with 4 year degrees, tons of debt, and no jobs. They’re lucky to wait tables with those BAs. The money is now in trade school. Welding, mechanics, oil rig engineering. . .Unless you want to go on to a masters or a PhD, a 4 year degree promises nothing anymore.
Dog, actually it does. The value of a $100,000 masters degree is about $1.5 million in total wages. Yeah, its a good choice.
Heres an article, that if you get it, should spin you out….the government makes more money by paying for college for students.
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ965808.pdf
Hazard, we were talking BACHELOR’S degrees. I said unless you planned to go on to advanced degree, there was no guarantee.
Reading comprehension?
Hey Dog, is Feb 2014 recent enough for you.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to-college/
Rick
Oh the irony, that dawg operates on a reading comprehension level of the 8th grade and wants to talk about education. Dawg isn’t even capable of taking the GRE and talks down to people with degrees.
How old is the earth? Did humans evolve from lower primates>
Yeah, good luck passing the current GED.
Gotta love those with degrees in literature or philosophy complaining about not finding work relavent to their education. Where did they expect to work?
Dog. At least I do research before I blog, as opposed to your blob vomit.