[Gllug] Jobs Sites and Universities [slightly off-topic]

[Bernard Peek]

In message <20040630211652.GC32432 at pigeonhold.com>, Doug Winter 
<doug at pigeonhold.com> writes
>On Wed 30 Jun Bernard Peek wrote:
>> As a jobseeker without a degree I'll make a plea to employers to look
>> carefully at the brief they give to agencies and to only specify that a
>> degree is required if it really is necessary, which shouldn't be so for
>> any except junior jobs.
>
>Yep, in a field that moves as quickly as ours degrees are largely
>meaningless for a lot of jobs.  The experience of going to university is
>valuable, but the actual qualification isn't.  I still look out for
>people without degrees, or with thirds.  They are often the ones who'd
>spent all their time spodding when they should have been working, and so
>are much better hires :)

The best developers I ever hired both failed their degrees.




-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.

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