Re:Three Levels of Wealth
by ethbro on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:59PM
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I think are two different stages we're conflating here.
Education, in the resume / HR sense is absolutely a signal.
Education, in maintaining and excelling in your profession is knowledge.
It's lamentable that degrees are used as filters, but I wouldn't trust someone to do an electrical engineering job who didn't have a related degree. There's simply too much to learn. (Yes, exceptions do exist, but they're not common)
I'd argue the more pointed questions to colleges should be: if you're not equipping your graduates with the latter knowledge, then what are they buying? And why should they continue to pay you?
Education, in the resume / HR sense is absolutely a signal.
Education, in maintaining and excelling in your profession is knowledge.
It's lamentable that degrees are used as filters, but I wouldn't trust someone to do an electrical engineering job who didn't have a related degree. There's simply too much to learn. (Yes, exceptions do exist, but they're not common)
I'd argue the more pointed questions to colleges should be: if you're not equipping your graduates with the latter knowledge, then what are they buying? And why should they continue to pay you?