Re: Degree Required

[Kenneth H Werner <KHWerner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is one very good business reason for companies to ask for and 
require a degree.  By only hiring people with a degree they can place 
the fault on the "failed, low quality" university the hired attended 
rather than having to look at and face the reality of a problem in their 
selection methodology should the person hired not perform.

I have several degrees and more credits than 8 full years of college all 
worthless unless I can convince you what they are worth. If you are in 
the middle of Death Valley with a bone dry mouth and I have water,  I 
can  convince you that a cup of my water is worth $50. A degree is like 
a $50 dollar bill. It is worth only as much as I personally believes and 
can convince you it is worth.

Recently rated as one of the top 2 "Best Buy" of regionally accredited 
higher education can be found at tesc.edu, one of the  New Jersey state 
colleges. It has no football team, student union building or dorms. It 
has no library. With a qualified faculty, this state college allows and 
has graduated people that in just a few hours a week for less than 1 
year have tested out of 85 percent of the courses for their degree and 
took the other 15 percent on-line at they own pace. A degree does not 
require wasting time sitting through lectures by a professor whose can 
not be understood. Most Americans believe a degree is granted following 
a school attempt to impart knowledge; Thomas Edison (tesc.edu) 
objectively recognizes-acknowledges achieved knowledge. 

Doug Hart wrote:
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> I'm not sure rules like that a legal.  If it is written policy they are
> possibly open to litigation.
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> I have consulted at companies that claimed they could not hire me because of
> my lack of a diploma.  1st the reason I was there was because their own,
> degreed, staff could not do the job.  And 2nd I was making more money than
> any of them.  Their policy really didn't bother me. 
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> Doug Hart - Principal Consultant
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> For us there is a corporate rule that anyone in management MUST have a
> degree.  So, if an IT person wanted to become a programming/systems/
> operations manager, they couldn't do it.  Stops the climbing of the ladder
> if that is what one wants to do.
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> Debbie Panco
> Senior Systems Analyst / Project Leader
> United Consumer Financial Services
> 865 Bassett Road
> Westlake, Ohio 44142
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