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<TITLE>RE: [Sussex] An odd question....</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The one thing I think you can pretty much (nearly) guarantee with someone who has a reasonable degree is they have been faced with some significant pressure, and pulled through it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>There is a lot to learn (possibly the modular degree's lose something here!), a lot to manage and you need to learn how to research a problem well!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I learned so much from my degree, and very little of it was subject related. Mostly it was the ability to research, present a paper to a panel, give reasoned argument to a question (regardless of subject). These skills are, in my view, the ones that are difficult to get from many 'early career' jobs, unless you are very fortunate.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dominic</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Hmmm... it depends on the degree. If you sent me a CV that said you graduated with a good grade in Computer Science from Cambridge,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Oxford, Brunel, Imperial, MIT, SAIL, CMU, Washington State or the like, then I'd have a fair idea of where you stood as a programmer - a >much better idea in fact than if you turned up with four years experience in $A_LARGE_COMPANY. If you turned up with a degree from </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Brighton Polytechnic (or whatever it calls itself this week) then frankly you might as well have gone and got an MCSD for all I care - it >tells me nothing, you could be brilliant, you could be crap, however, if the guy next to you has all the same experience but doesn't have >that degree and you both interview well then the guy with the degree gets the benefit of the doubt.</FONT></P>
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