can a certain amount of years of experience be the equivelant to college degree?
February 18th, 2010 | 
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c and a h asked:
I just wondered during my job search if it would be worth applying for jobs that may require a degree that I don’t have, but do have 10 years experience in.
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Professional Resume Writing. Years of experience.
Degree and the Experience, both categorically differ from each other. One can not substitute each other. The way left out is …u should obtain a degree..let it be an external..For any job, degree is the main and the experience is the secondary.
Professional Resume Writing. Years of experience.
ABSOLUTELY!
People have challenged collegesuniversities and received degrees based on their knowledge (gained from life experience and personal education). Let me tell you a story:
My dad worked for NASA as a scientific technical photographer at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. He’d come home with disparaging remarks when college students would be interning, as they typically didn’t have ’savvy’ and stood around thinking they were ‘all that’. He’d have been well satisfied to encounter someone with a burning love of the work (like himself), someone who was interested and itching to work and learn (that quality was absent from the kids he encountered).
But, like the lotto, “ya’ gotta’ play to win”.
Take your experience and eagerness to work and go for the job you want. Beyond your experience, let them see the fire in your belly.
Best wishes, go get ‘im.
Professional Resume Writing. Years of experience.
Ok, this is a very good question, When you see an ad that says, must be a, for example, college graduate with the degree on Human Resource Management or equivalent. This means, you have to be a college graduate, if it is not Human Resource Management, you should have a lot of experience on Human Resource Management but a degree is a must. TECHNICALLY THERE ARE NO EQUIVALENT TO ANY DEGREES EXCEPT EXPERIENCE. The second condition is, must be college graduate or equivalent, This means in lieu of college diploma, you must have considerable experience on the position you are applying for.
Those are the two cases where experience can replace a college or university degree. My suggestion, is just apply, because there are companies that value experience more than a diploma or a certificate.
I know this for a fact, because I was a working student and became an H.R. Supervisor even before I graduate with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics, which I was not able to practice (Please click my avatar) and end up working as a Deputy General Manager for Administration in a multinational electronics company, too far off from my educational attainment.
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