Tursiops
Wednesday 17th November 2010 12:14pm [Edited]
Welwyn Garden City
9,788 posts
Quote: ellipsis @ November 17 2010, 4:04 AM GMT
After reading this, my eyes have opened to the vast conspiracy designed to steal my monies. Clearly I should drop out of school, because the businesses are being silly with demanding a basic understanding of the subject before hiring. All I need is some on the job training.
Depends rather on what you are studying and what you end up doing. I did a degree which has nothing to do with the job I hold down, which I learnt by doing it, and I am still learning every day.
I could kid myself that I "learnt how to think" at Uni, but I have colleagues who did not go to Uni who nonetheless seem perfectably capable of thinking, and I have colleagues with degrees (often in relevant subjects, such as economics) whose lack of insight and commonsense never ceases to astound me.
If I was an employer I would be less concerned with whether an employee had a basic understanding of the subject when I took him on than whether he was capable of acquiring an advanced understanding further down the line.
But since most recruiting these days is done by specialists in recruitment (i.e. people with no real understanding of the businesses they are recruiting for), then if you know what you want to do you are probably doing the correct thing in studying for a degree that ticks the right box and makes it simple for them.