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Subject:Re: success with finding jobs From:"Wilcox, John (Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:16:00 -0700
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From: Steven Warren
Wayne wrote:>
Here in Silicon Valley you still run into lamebrained HR departments
that
will overlook resumes if there isn't a college degree listed.
Lamebrained
Pubs managers will probably do the same, but the smart ones know better.
When I was a Pubs manager, half my staff of 12 had degrees. There was no
obvious correlation between sheepskin and ability.
Steve Warren wrote:
First of all, I take offense to lamebrained HR departments. There is a
reason HR departments follow this criteria.
Furthermore, to make such a broad generalization is astounding. Having a
college degree shows a prospective
employer that you have what it takes to see something through to the
end.
This establishes your character to a
prospective employer. It proves you also have what it takes to stick out
a
long project. College is a discipline and
should not be viewed as something negative.
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Perhaps the mistake was in the assumption rather than the assertion.
Wayne made a distinction between lame-brained and smart pubs managers;
do you think he doesn't make a distinction between HR depts? He said
"you still run into lamebrained HR departments" -- he didn't say that
all HR depts are lame-brained.
Now as to your second point:
If the HR dept always thinks that "having a college degree shows a
prospective
employer that you have what it takes to see something through to the
end," they ARE lame-brained. I know quite a few people who stayed in
college as long as they could simply because their way was being paid.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001 USA
253-924-7972 wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
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