[SWLUG] Employment agencies

[Steve Hill]

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Gerald Davies wrote:

> whilst a degree is no indicator of your ability to "do" a job, it,
> allegedly, demonstrates an ability to learn, manage time, plagarise,
> etc, and so people use it as a pre-requisite.  IMHO, degrees are worth
> no more than O'levels these days.... more or less everybody has one.
> look at the value of A'levels.. ssseesh.

There are certainly some things I learnt in my degree that are very useful 
(database design, etc) and I see people who haven't been formally taught 
some of this stuff making horrendous mistakes (and telling people who *do* 
know what they're doing that they're doing it all wrong :).  However, I 
think most of the skills I use in my job have come from a lot of 
experience with computers (programming from a very young age on the 
Commodore 64, generally being a geek.  Also lots of experience with Linux 
and C while at the Swansea Uni Computer Society which helped a great 
deal.  Obviously more recently, general stuff I've learnt while working.)

I do see a lot of people with formal qualifications who don't have a clue 
what they're doing (sadly they always seem to be earning more than me 
doing a job they don't know how to do :)

  - Steve       Jabber: steve at nexusuk.org     Web: http://www.nexusuk.org/

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