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Yeah, those filthy scum. How dare them apply for a job that's unrelated to their field.
Is this thread for real? People jump around to all different types of fields throughout their working lives. Just like any career, you start from the bottom and work your way up. It's really not that difficult.
Now unless of course you're just trolling here...in that case, why I am wasting my time.
How do you even get an interview? Why would you even call someone in for an interview with an unrelated degree with all the people that apply?
These days it is difficult. There's so many candidates for most jobs, the most obvious way to pare them down is be required degree.
But back when the economy was better it was very possible.
For a lot of jobs related to computers, employers realize whether the person can do the job is more important than the degree. They are behind the scenes and make things work. For my field, our bosses sell us by listing our credentials to clients, so an engineer with an English degree doesn't quite cut it, despite the fact that he could probably do the job.
Also, for computers, it used to be there were more jobs than people with relevant degrees. No longer the case.
It's pretty simple why that happens. The percentage breakdown of majors is not representative of the job market. At my school, I think, there were more Math majors than Electrical Engineering majors, yet EE is directly related to many in-demand jobs while Math isn't at all. Hence you have a lot of people retooling their knowledge to try and get the jobs that actually exist. At least for a Math major it's not too difficult to get a good programming or data analysis skill set to get a job. I feel bad for people who are Psychology majors and haven't taken a math class in years. Makes it a lot harder to learn in-demand skills.
How do you even get an interview? Why would you even call someone in for an interview with an unrelated degree with all the people that apply?
Pretty sure it's against C-D TOS to accuse someone in the forums of trolling instead of simply hitting the 'report' button.
Those in glass houses and all...
OP, oftentimes skills and abilities needed in one field will be applicable to other fields. It's also helpful to know someone in or have some kind of connection to the new field.
It's pretty simple why that happens. The percentage breakdown of majors is not representative of the job market. At my school, I think, there were more Math majors than Electrical Engineering majors, yet EE is directly related to many in-demand jobs while Math isn't at all. Hence you have a lot of people retooling their knowledge to try and get the jobs that actually exist. At least for a Math major it's not too difficult to get a good programming or data analysis skill set to get a job. I feel bad for people who are Psychology majors and haven't taken a math class in years. Makes it a lot harder to learn in-demand skills.
That's the spirit. Math scares people, especially the ones who's been away from school too long. Use that to your advantage when you try for finance/regulatory related jobs
That's the spirit. Math scares people, especially the ones who's been away from school too long. Use that to your advantage when you try for finance/regulatory related jobs
Doesn't scare me. I got a liberal arts degree but took a lot of computer science courses as electives (mind you this was in the Eighties so I was programming in languages no one uses today) and just missed having it as my minor. Got my butt kicked by calculus because I was overloaded with other classes and work when I took it but I really enjoyed Discrete Computer Mathematics and I do have a head for numbers and logic.
Right now I'm prepping to go back to school and actually get a bachelor's in IT (web development), with communications as a minor, then possibly a master's. Since I know I'll need to actually kick calc's butt this time around, I've pulled out the math books and grabbed some open coursework (from MIT, etc.) to work on the math in my own time before I start taking credit courses. I'm enjoying the mental exercise.
Oh... and I've actually done some IT contract work. Low-level stuff, but yes a person can sometimes work in a field other than the one their degree is in, provided they've learned the relevant skills and can demonstrate this to an employer.
I was making a point that in most cases if you have a career, you need to be trained and educated in that line of work. Eventually most people in college will come to the conclusion that in todays world college needs to move from a place where one just gets educated in liberal arts, to a place where professionals get trained to work in a specific career. College will become a higher end vocational technical institute.
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Originally Posted by Tekkie
The absurdity of this comment makes me realize that you're not serious.
Clearly that is not the case and nobody is claiming that to be the case. But wouldn't you believe it, there are jobs out there besides accounting and engineering. I know, right? Mind-blown.
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