What's more important? Skill sets or a college degree? if you had to choose one, what would it be and why?

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What's more important? Skill sets or a college degree?

if you had to choose one, what would it be and why?

7 авг. 2019 г., 12:11

A college degree is not just a piece of paper. It certifies that you have acquired a certain skill set. The problem is that nowadays college is really overpriced and yet has a very high status to the point that everyone feels the need to get a degree, so now the labour market is oversaturated with people with higher education degrees, which makes the degrees lose their value in the labour market.

Although I think people tend to forget that unlike vocational education, college education is about more than acquiring job skills. College education is meant to give you general life skills: critical thinking skills, writing skills, and generally be an enriching experience that opens you up to new ideas and new perspectives.

7 августа 2019 г.

Ideally, both are needed but skills are more important because that's what you'd need in everyday life, not just at work or in business

7 августа 2019 г.

Skills

Even if you have a PhD or even an MBA, it is useless if is not required in the field you are working at.. I know a lot of people who are good with theory but quite poor in practice. A higher degree can help you with a promotion but it is sometimes unnecessary unless you are practicing it. A good example is teaching. There is a big difference with a teacher who has years of experience and a teacher with an MA but no experience in teaching. A person with an MA can have more knowledge but if the teaching method is poor then it is useless.

7 августа 2019 г.

Achieved Magister degree in psychology and never worked psychologist. Not even one day.

So, I wasted five years of my life for study, and then started on zero point in completely different sphere, where I needed a lot of skills I didn’t have. It taked another five years to achieve something with this. So, if I could choose ten years ago, I deffinitely prefered skills.

7 августа 2019 г.