Spot on. All you need to do is get in the door. Really, if you’re good, all you need is an interview.
The interview is the biggie.
If you can sustain the high pressure interview, were 3 people hit you all at once, keep your cool and stay sharp, you are likely to get the job.
That is, of course, in the real world. In the world of academia, a self perpetuating scam that does some good by accident, they love to hire those who follow their own behind the times close minded career path.
This is why teachers get automatic raises when they get another post grad degree, There is no demonstrable improvement in their ability to teach, but since they have to pay tuition to big ed to get raises in big ed, this is how the whole stinky tenured system keeps sucking us dry.
Meanwhile, a good laptop and some traveling around the country or world can teach you more than any classroom ever could.
When I was preparing my oldest daughter to enter the corporate world, I told her the most important thing to learn was how to function in the corporate, cubicle farm environment. The job skills can be taught to any average intelligence person. The people that SHINE are the ones others find themselves wanting to work with. And though that is partly based on job competence, the lions share is based on how you are to work with.
People hire someone with whom they want to spend 8 hours a day.
Spot on. All you need to do is get in the door. Really, if you’re good, all you need is an interview.
He had some teething issues but the speed at which he learned from his mistakes was impressive. Within three years he had been promoted all the way to DBA, which was a big deal in that particular area.