CNN has an article called 20 Great Jobs That Don't Require A Degree. Some of the results worry me though.. why is the average annual income of an elevator repairer or dental hygienist higher than that of a commercial pilot, special agent, or radiation therapist? I can appreciate that these jobs might not require degrees, but dental hygienists get paid more than commercial pilots? That seems bizarre.
The most interesting conclusion of the article, however, is that many employment experts believe a degree will be of less use or significance in the future, and that two thirds of projected job openings by 2010 will require only on-the-job training. I wonder what the situation is in the UK, since I feel it's going the other direction here.
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Won't require a degree? That does sound strange. It was certainly not the case a few years ago in the US when I was looking for a job, and 100% not the case in China now.
It seemed because so many people we getting degrees and then moving onto advanced degrees that companies were posting education requirements simply to narrow the pool of candidates, not to actually fulfill a job-related need.
Posted by: John at February 26, 2006 02:02 AMLike you I feel the UK is going in the other direction. But I do wonder about the quality of the candidates that are being produced from universities these days.
On several occasions in the past I've hired people who have had no formal education past A-levels and found them to be brighter or just better programmers than some people with masters degrees or Phd's.
This isn't the general rule of course, but it caused me in the past to alter the programming test I gave, to be one that tested a programmers creativeness and ingenuity rather than their ability to memorise wads of API info.
Posted by: Jonathan Conway at February 26, 2006 10:14 AMReturn to the homepage.
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