Sometimes it says that the person didn’t have rich parents to pay for him to lay around for 4-5 years. Sometimes it says that that person wanted to get on with their life and was smart enough and ambitious enough to do it on their own.
My stepson has a degree in History from a well-known university. He has never had a “real” job. He is a professional musician. He works steady but never makes much money. His wife is the money-maker in the family. But my husband spent $50K just so his kid could say he had a degree. A stupid waste of money in that case.
Maybe you should try to find out a bit more about the person rather than just blowing them off if you don’t see a degree. You might be missing out on a fabulous employee.
Sometimes it says that the person didn’t have rich parents to pay for him to lay around for 4-5 years.
Obviously you haven't spent any time in a physical science, mathematics, or engineering program. Nobody who graduates with such a degree "lays around" for four years.
My stepson has a degree in History from a well-known university... my husband spent $50K just so his kid could say he had a degree. A stupid waste of money in that case.
If he "lay around" for four years, and your husband paid the bill after the first semester, that was the problem. I do share what I think is your view - that far too many people wander aimlessly in college, which is a very expensive place to "find yourself." Such a person should work to support themselves until they develop the conviction and drive to relentlessly pursue excellence in whatever they see as their future field of endeavor.
You are right...I might be missing a find. However, with the amount of resumes, we need to use some kind of basic sorting parameters. At the level we are looking for, (journeyman vice lower level) the lack of a degree is by choice. Its a bad choice.
You are absolutely correct. I've been an employer and I can tell you that the quality that is far more important than education is attitude. Give me a high school drop out with the right attitude over a college grad with a bad attitude anytime.