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If you came across a qualified, entry-level candidate with a degree from an online school, particularly the ones listed, would you just throw it in the trash or would you consider interviewing the person?
For entry level, yeah I would ignore a degree from any of those schools. For an experienced person, I typically don't care where their degree is from.
I have 2 employees with degrees from one of the schools you mentioned (both employees from the same school, with the same degree, so very comparable). One is entry level and the other is experienced. No problems with the experienced candidate. The entry level one doesn't even know how to use MS Office. I kid you not. Had to be taught the basics of Word and Excel. After getting a full business degree from one of those schools. I don't regret the hire because the person is a dedicated employee who is working hard to learn the position, but it certainly says a lot about the "education" these schools are providing.
For those of you that have hired people: Would you just throw away a resume with devry, phoenix,strayer, etc. ?
I have talked to the people that hire for my county's two largest employers about this!
They get dozens, if not hundreds, of applications per position. The ones from for-profit/online schools are usually cut, as they do not have the desired credentials, recommendations, and/or internships as other candidates.
When I was involved with the hiring team, after interviewing several candidates over a period of a couple of years from for-profit schools (mostly Phoenix because of the types of positions we hired for), and finding none of them even remotely competitive or qualified for even an entry-level position, we did, indeed decide to discard any application from a graduate of one of those schools. There were so many qualified candidates with outstanding credentials from real schools and with excellent skills, even at entry level, that it was a waste of everyone's time and resources to interview from the for-profit schools. We never hired any of the candidates we interviewed from those schools. They really were not qualified when compared with their competition from real academic institutions.
Sounds like most employers "punish" people for going to these schools, which is not fair. Most people who go to these schools work full-time jobs and these schools offer flexibility. State schools who have online programs do not offer every single one of their degrees online so sometimes a person may not have a choice but to attend one of these for-profit schools.
Sounds like most employers "punish" people for going to these schools, which is not fair. Most people who go to these schools work full-time jobs and these schools offer flexibility. State schools who have online programs do not offer every single one of their degrees online so sometimes a person may not have a choice but to attend one of these for-profit schools.
We were not "punishing" anyone. We did interview candidates from the for-profit schools for some time, but the experience was universally poor. Not one of them was qualified. Not. One. So, it was a waste of time and resources for everyone concerned to continue to interview candidates from those schools since their training was clearly inadequate for the positions we needed to fill. It was because the for-profit schools were not training them to the standards we required that we stopped considering candidates from those schools.
Employers are not charities. They cannot afford to take poorly trained candidates just because they might have hard-luck stories. If they are not qualified, they are not qualified. Other candidates came to us well prepared right out of school. They were the ones we hired.
If they have the proper credentials needed for my company I would not throw out those schools but it is unlikely they would have what is needed to work for me.
Sounds like most employers "punish" people for going to these schools, which is not fair
You got that wrong.
Those schools take advantage of the students by not preparing them for the real world.
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