[Sigia-l] How much is your degree worth?

[Andrew Boyd]

On 7/29/07, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:
> isn't a design degree just another kind of certification?

Yes.

As is industry experience. Both are qualifications of a sort - in that
they are used to include/exclude interview candidates.

Just on the whole "why we bother with this stuff" thing - I think that
the "qualification" camp is seeking an answer to eternally successful
interviewee syndrome, where otherwise useless individuals put in a
corker of an interview and are employed on that basis. The
qualification is supposed to even things out. I disagree - this is
only part of the answer. The company that I work for (SMS) has a
four-stage interview process - while lengthy, it seems to work fairly
well... we seem to end up with qualified people (qualified through
education and experience) that (just as importantly) have good
corporate fit.

Cheers, Andrew

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Andrew Boyd
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