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If the people you're sending your CV to won't place different weights on a degree from the university of aruba and one from Oxford then you're not applying to the right jobs. :)
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Hi gopi,
Since your link was to a free and reputable ressource, also contributed to the topic, and in the right forum, I dont see why such another great contribution of yours could be in any way questionnable.
"....a degree from a prestigious non-accredited university."
A non-accredited university is likely to be set up in someone's home office and about as prestigious as herpes simplex.
Lots of backpackers wanted to teach English and in many of the more developed Asian countries and degree was required.
Gopi - thanks for the link I now have a masters in business admin hanging on my wall!
No Phi Beta Kappa invite yet!
What's the deal with these?
One of my former business partners paid to be in "XYZ" Who's Who index - it was about $250.
He got a plaque with his name on it and a booklet that listed all the other suckers that paid the same fee.
Yeah, I know about those Who's Who deals.
But these Honor Societies must have some backing from the schools. They had an idea of my son's grades and they had our address. One had a banquet planned for new members and their families.
Still, an Honor Society where membership is based on one semester's grades has to be a scam.
Heck, if my family had a Coat of Arms they wouldn't have left Europe in the bowels of a tramp steamer in 1890!
You have to pay for real degrees in England nowadays...
We've had to pay for real degrees in the US all along, I have no pity. ;)
The hilarious thing is you can look up the names of these well-known diploma mills on the web and you'll find them included in the bios of many college professors, including some at major schools.
You pay, germans have to learn.
We have the option to learn... and the professors treat you *really* nicely if you show any inclination or desire to do so. ;)
Now I have a History Degree, so mebbe the wife will stop complaining about the amout of time I spend sacked out in fron to the History Channel ;)
If you're not academically inclined, go get an apprenticeship, go to a polytechnic college, get a vocational qualification, do evening courses... anything but don't foul up university research based disciplines because "you want to improve your job prospects". It's got nothing to do with any job, unless that job is being a research fellow / professor.
I curse all governments and employers who confuse academic achievement with vocational aptitude. The two are entirely different and should be kept distinct.
She said, "I'm not going to do that much on this one. I'm not going for an 'A', because I don't have time to put in the effort. I just want the 'B' I paid for."
I nearly choked on my soup.
Most European universities don't even have Management programs, they don't consider it apropriate. I tend to agree. I never understood why people thought you can teach good management. Management is about leadership and or vision, and these aren't subjects particularly suited to the classroom. You either have it, or you don't.
I worked at a very big corporation to put myself through University, and there was a mix of managers who'd risen through the ranks the old fashioned way (from the mail-room, to the board room, as they say), managers who'd come up through the technical and professional departments (engineers, accountants, etc.), and managers who'd stepped right into management positions out of University, clutching MBAs to prove their skills.
Without fail, the worst managers to work for were the MBA types, and it boggled me as to why they kept hiring them, because none of them made it past middle management. All of the senior management were people who came out of technical areas of the company (mostly engineers, and a few out of accounting), with a sprinkling of bureaucratic grunts who'd risen from lowly "clerk" white collar positions and bull-dogged their way through the company. (Some of these last were AWESOME managers, they'd worked their way through this massive byzantine bureaucracy, and knew the ins and outs of virtually every department. One of the VPs when I was there was a high-school dropout, and had risen this way, and was in charge of the largest business units in the company, and was hugely well respected).
This is a "one company" example, because it was the one and only time I have ever worked directly for a massive mega-corp type company, but I believe there are a lot of other companies out there like this.
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