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I feel the solution to this issue is Certification. Certification is meant to validate your experience and knowledge in the domain you gained the certificate for. Certifications are available for a wide range of domains like IT, Business Process, Business Applications, Engineering Designs, Project Management, etc. Each certification is meant to validate different skills and also have different eligibility pre-requisites which you have to qualify for in order to get the certification. You can choose your certification according to your expertise, interest area, previous experience, and job level.
Certifications without experience, still won't get the job.
And if one qualifies for a certification partly due toe experience, it is the experience that is more important than the certification.
I've posted about my sitch before, but my BA in Communications, plus my AS in engineering, has opened doors to positions that pay 90k/yr. All those employers are adamant when they say a degree is required.
Aside from STEM degrees is anyone very disappointed or even angered that their bachelor's or master's degree from a public university did not open doorways to great workplaces?
Many of us worked hard to earn good grades for classes that would be applicable for workplaces but once hired of course after going on a tedious job search the workplace turns out to offer low pay for the overload of disorganized work projects and poor management that one has to deal with.
It often feels that the bachelor's degree and or master's degree is highly overrated and doesn't open up great opportunities in a lot of cases.
It depends on what your degree is in. Some degrees are nearly impossible to use to get a job.
Good for those people who somehow chose a useful degree when they went to school. Now you can thumb your nose up to the rest and chastise them for making the wrong choice. When in truth, no one knows what we get for our choice anymore. Are teenagers supposed to have a crystal ball? Tired of scam universities, close them down and stop ruining lives!!!!
What is a "good degree" anymore though? The majority of STEM careers (That were so highly coveted at one time with great career prospects) have now been outsourced, insourced, and filled with scammy temp positions
What is a "good degree" anymore though? The majority of STEM careers (That were so highly coveted at one time with great career prospects) have now been outsourced, insourced, and filled with scammy temp positions
There are no "good degrees" now.
stem degrees are still good, its just that your grades need to be up there
There are lots of good jobs, well paying for the area you will work in.
The reasons that a lot of young people cannot get the good job with a high income they counted on:
They study for and receive a degree, where there will be 700 openings nationally, and 2,800 people earned the required degree. That means there will be 2,100 that cannot find a job in their field. The starting pay in that field, may be be only $30,000 per year, where in a field with about the same number of jobs as graduates, it may be $100,000 a year. A lot of graduates are shocked when they find out how little the job their degree is in, starts at a much lower figure than anticipated, not the high one they have been dreaming in getting.
Some holders of that degree will fairly well be able to find a job out of their degree, but will not pay the money they expected. Then there is always jobs as a Barista, many have had to take.
To get jobs, the right university, and being in the top 10% of their class, can let them be first in line for a job at a particular employer, with a lower salary, than they expected.
Here are some jobs your degree will earn you a good living.
Considering your lowest paid lists are primarily various jobs in education or ministry, I'm not sure that very many people going into those fields expected to make $100K a year.
Some holders of that degree will fairly well be able to find a job out of their degree, but will not pay the money they expected. Then there is always jobs as a Barista, many have had to take.
Aside from STEM degrees is anyone very disappointed or even angered that their bachelor's or master's degree from a public university did not open doorways to great workplaces?
Many of us worked hard to earn good grades for classes that would be applicable for workplaces but once hired of course after going on a tedious job search the workplace turns out to offer low pay for the overload of disorganized work projects and poor management that one has to deal with.
It often feels that the bachelor's degree and or master's degree is highly overrated and doesn't open up great opportunities in a lot of cases.
Yes I really feel sad and disappointed that after graduating college with straight A's i was unemployed and the only job i could get was a blue collar job that didnt even require a degree..
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