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Subject:Re[2]: success with finding jobs From:annasoj -at- EXABYTE -dot- COM Date:Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:52:27 MDT
Sounds to me like the ones w/o a degree think it's not important and
the ones with a degree think it is. I'm proud that I got my degree.
College itself was an experience I'll never regret (especially now
that it's finally paid for!). I figure that if an employer requires a
degree, that doesn't mean they are lamebrained, it's just a
requirement for that particular job. If you can't or don't want to
fill that requirement (no matter how lamebrained you think it is),
just apply for a different job. Their loss.
My 2 cents.
anna
annasoj -at- exabyte -dot- com
*Opinions are mine and not my employer's*
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Subject: Re: success with finding jobs
Author: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> at UNIXMAIL
Date: 7/10/97 4:07 PM
At 04:54 PM 7/10/97 -0400, Steven Warren wrote:
>First of all, I take offense to lamebrained HR departments. There is a
>reason HR departments follow this criteria.
And that reason is?
> College is a discipline and
>should not be viewed as something negative.
>
I don't. Neither do I regard the *lack* of a college degree as something
negative.
--Wayne
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