Job hunting

[reef-keeper]

We I was in the first interview the person I was talking to said that I was the perfect fit due to my experience and that no one comes even close. Then she left and handed over the paperwork to the dept supervisor. Then after about 5 min of waiting this runny nose ( meaning this kid was no older that 25 - 30)come in and tells her that he won’t hire me bescuse I didn’t have a diploma. Yes I was close enough to hear that conversation. When she walked over and told me what he said as she shook her head. Told me good luck. I just laughed and “for real???” And left it at that. Any way I do have a small business that helps out a little bite, work out of my garage.

[Dearth]

It sucks big time that they pass you over because of a basically worthless piece of paper that you get from a university or college.

My employer went through that phase a few years ago when the Vice President of the company decided that having a grade 12 education wasn’t good enough and impilmented a hiring policy that they would hire those with post secondary education over people with actual experience. Turns out that his idea backfired on him big time not only were we not getting people those that were hired for the most part didn’t last very long because even though they were well paid they didn’t want to do work not in their field of expertise.

Ever since that post secondary clause was taken out of the primary hiring wording we have actually been able to hire people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty.

It is sad though that more and more employers value post secondary education over actual experience in today’s job market

I hope that things will work out for you in the long run