Have your qualifications helped you find a job?

[rennie]

Another vote for yes.

 

[Madusa]

yes here too.

 

[g force]

Only in so much as they wanted "someone educated to degree level"....so I suppose that's a yes, although I don't use any of it in day-to-day work, those skills were developed from work on the job.

 

[gentlegreen]

I've got sod all. And literally nothing on paper - I would be totally stuffed if asked to produce proof.

I doubt I would have been employed much over the years if I hadn't retaken my English O level which I failed first time.

Since my colleagues tend to have PhDs, I probably wouldn't have been taken on by my employer of 27 years without the ONC in Electronics - something which hardly challenged my self-taught hobbyist's knowledge, and virtually none of which is relavent to AV.

I look forward to living in France where my lack of Baccalauréat (posh set of A-levels) will instantly qualify me as a genuine working class peasant .

 

[Cloo]

Yeah - the first degree result helped me get interviews, I think, though I failed to get a job off it per se. My second and more vocational postgrad in Publishing Studies was certainly essential in getting me into editorial, without a doubt.

 

[kabbes]

My qualification as an actuary helps me to be an actuary.

 

[Kameron]

Yes in general terms.

However I do think that people who put BA or BSc (Hons) after their name on their business cards, CV's or such like are leaning on it a bit. After you've been working in a field for a few years leaning on your degree like a crutch is a bit sad in my opinion, like it is the most important thing you ever did and that make you look a bit sad and unimaginative from where I stand. (exception made for Doctors, change of title is fine)

 

[gabi]

Dont have any qualifications. So, no

I sometimes wish I did as there's something of a glass ceiling. Altho that gets thinner and thinner as the years go by. Employers don't actually give a shit once you've got a half decent CV.

 

[fractionMan]

yes, def. I landed a much better programming job right after completing my OU degree. I'd been programming before but always in weird legacy junior roles.

 

[marshall]

Nope.

My one big regret in life is going to university. I could have done what I’m doing now, only sooner.

 

[hovis]

Yes, I studied engineering and now I'm a chartered engineer.

I suppose whether you use your education much in your job depends what area you work in, it's certainly necessary in science and techical jobs these days (unless you have years of experience I suppose).

 

[Kanda]

Nope.

My one big regret in life is going to university. I could have done what I’m doing now, only sooner.

Nothing?

 

[sojourner]

No, but I didn't do it to help me find a job. I did it because I was going to cut my wrists if I didn't exercise my mind

 

[kabbes]

Qualifications are hurdles. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have the qualification, you pass the hurdle. But once you have passed that hurdle, the qualification is worth nothing more.

School exams are hurdles to university exams. University exams are hurdles to graduate jobs. Once you have experience in your job, the qualification that allowed you to get that experience is no longer really worth anything.

(Of course, the study itself still has value and always will. But that's a different thing. You can pass an exam without having real understanding of the material and you can understand a subject without having an exam in it.)

 

[sojourner]

I avoided exams as much as possible, because they don't show my full knowledge. ^


e2a - because I panic in exam conditions, and can't remember my own name

 

[blossie33]

No, it's been many years since I took o levels!

Experience or knowing people or even asking for work is what's got me work for years now. I've been very lucky - nothing very well paid though but I don't mind about that, so long as I can pay the bills and have a little extra to spend it's ok by me