Degrees That Get You Hired...

[buttuh_b]

Finishing up my Accounting degree now. I'll be done in June. CPA next.

 

[TheNightKing]

Got my MBA, taking accounting classes so I can sit for the CPA exam. Business and Accounting at the highest levels. Cha-Ching!!!

 

[texas409]

My marketing degree ain't did shit for me lol maybe its because I'm in Texas though

 

[major pain]

Its not JUST the degree that gets you hired.. smh

 

[traestar]

Its not JUST the degree that gets you hired.. smh

I know its a thread title/article title and all but this is a big misconception.

I think anyone in this thread would know it does take more than a degree to get hired.

Especially when there's thousands upon thousands of resumes that recruiters go through rotation hourly.

 

[major pain]

there are a few comments in here that lead me to say that

also i do mentoring with young people and believe me... they ask all the time "what degree should i get to get good job"

 

[traestar]

there are a few comments in here that lead me to say that

also i do mentoring with young people and believe me... they ask all the time "what degree should i get to get good job"

A Degree DOES NOT guarantee you a job, let alone a career. Do not think you are on to the promise land once you're done...you haven't even started yet

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

All of them do if you network with the right people.

 

[traestar]

All of them do if you network with the right people.

All roads lead to the same path

 

[KrazySpade]

I dont think theres any degrees that "get you hired" it really comes down to networking, and if you already have a foot in the door of a company.

There is no company's really are willing to take a risk on a completely random person that just graduated college.

i know various people that are recent graduates even with bachelors degrees in different majors that are still working minimum wage jobs.

I myself am kinda in the same position where i just graduated with my bachelors last june and am still working at a regular job but i decided to take what learned and apply it to starting my own business. I enrolled back into school but now i am not looking to get a degree, now i am taking classes focused on just things that will teach me the basics for things i feel i will need to know to run my business more effectively (ex: small business law, taxes, marketing etc) I only need to know the basics because i will learn the rest with experience.

 

[TheNightKing]

It's true a degree doesn't get you a job/career, but it does seem to help more than not having one. Most jobs nowadays requires one to even get your resume pulled.

 

[traestar]

I dont think theres any degrees that "get you hired" it really comes down to networking, and if you already have a foot in the door of a company.

There is no company's really are willing to take a risk on a completely random person that just graduated college.

i know various people that are recent graduates even with bachelors degrees in different majors that are still working minimum wage jobs.

I myself am kinda in the same position where i just graduated with my bachelors last june and am still working at a regular job but i decided to take what learned and apply it to starting my own business. I enrolled back into school but now i am not looking to get a degree, now i am taking classes focused on just things that will teach me the basics for things i feel i will need to know to run my business more effectively (ex: small business law, taxes, marketing etc) I only need to know the basics because i will learn the rest with experience.

In some instances, networking can get you further long before a degree would.

HR recruiters really seem like the gate keepers to many jobs, but when you start creating a relationship with a hiring manager, they oversee the HR's decisions. I've just looked back at my jobs in the past, almost all of them in some capacity I had to talk to the manager up front.

 

[traestar]

In life I think what your success (and even salary) will largely depend on is how well you can take the skills you have and make money with them. An education will definitely get your foot in the door and in some areas (like Medicine or Law) it's essential. Like I'm gonna use the poster @WeeZee as an example, here's a young person (prolly younger than yall) who loves art and also works as a tattoo artist while going to school, her skills and being able to utilize her talents allowed for her to buy a home WHILE in school and make good money. That's not exclusive to only 1 person, you can all achieve that too. The trick tho is finding that which you are good at and learning how to leverage it into making money, some people are writers, some people are sociology majors, etc. those are tough areas to get hired in but eventually they make it work. That's the hard part. Your education will take you far but be sure to develop the right talents you need to excel. You don't want to be the guy who felt he/she should have gone into computer sciences iuno but did law instead cuz your friends or even parents were in your ears (they dont care they just want stability for you). If you go into things you don't like you'll be disconnected & eventually replaced by someone more passionate and cheaper than you, you might make your money here and there but it won't last long. You don't want to be the guy who gets laid off at 50 without the right skills or talents to go into something you have always loved but never got to do because of peer pressure, etc. I've seen a lot of people like that SMMFH. The earlier you get this in your mind the better.

You have to have 2 outstanding qualities in life - confidence and discipline, most of you will find confidence but discipline is the toughest part. Crafting a thorough discipline is going to be dependent on the habits you develop early on. Several of my best friends went to ivy league schools and went 6 months without a job or got jobs that weren't entirely what they went to school for. If you're unfortunate to believe that your degree will roll out the red carpet for you, you need to widen your perspective. If you're going to get an education be smart about it and make sure it's in the line of what you're passionate about.

If any of you can - go and purchase Robert Greene's book "Mastery", or actually just google it and peep one of his interviews on it. I'm sure it'll motivate yall.

@Sion beautiful...I'm actually a product of everything you are saying. I've shared this story on another thread, but confidence and discipline is CRITICAL!! But with that also comes knowledge, you have to find your passion and then whatever passion you find, research on it.

I could actually look back 10 years since I've graduated high school, I was already a McDonalds guy just like everyone else. Coming out of high school I was interested in computers, and did want to go to college but I decided to go to community college first to get my feel of college. In 03, after graduating high school and working 2 years at MCDs, I started working in the casinos. I worked a year in the casinos, took a break from school and went to community college in 04. From there worked as a cashier graveshift for 3 years part time while going to college full time. I wanted to start getting computer experience, so I decided to quit the first casino in 06. I then also did co-op at my college for a year and as I quit the casinos, started working at a tux shop. As that semester year 06 ended, I left the tux shop and co-op job and found it very difficult to find a computer job in the city, so I got hired as a Sales Associate in a watch shop. Did that for a year and at that time graduated community college in 07, at that time a computer job opened up at another casino. Interviewed but didn't get the job, so I ended up getting a bank teller job. And in 08 started going to a state college, so part time job/ full time school. Worked the bank teller job for a year (07-08) and ended up talking to the same casino for the second time. Got the computer job finally! It wasn't too much, but I worked at this job for 3 years graveshift full time while going to college fulltime.

In 2011, I finally graduated the state college with my bach of sci, and decided to look into the job field for a stronger computer position. A family friend got me into a gov. computer job of which I am still in to this day...but as I've worked in this job, I realized that this job wasn't as what I expected it to be. So RIGHT NOW, I'm looking to relocate to a better job...still working and actually doing a good job but working on getting that position.

...to be honest thats as short as I can make it but as I've told my friends and family, I haven't got sleep since I've graduated, I'm never comfortable with that one job yet I wanted to work and get experience and of course help pay bills. It took me 7 years to at least get one computer job, but I wanted to finish college and at least have that on my plate before leaving. You may not have the same story as myself, but whatever you want to be you stay determined and patient. I didn't mention the millions of interviews and positions I got turned down for, but I continued to work on my skills, do research on what I want to do, and networking absolutely helps.

 

[KrazySpade]

Thats true, you need find a passion for something that you really will want to do and dedicate your life to making it work, and a degree does not guarantee anything.

straight outta high school i tried to get a video game degree but dropped out after a year cuz i wasnt passionate about it. i worked in construction for a year doing carpentry and i really enjoyed it a lot, so my second year i decided to go back to school to get a degree so that i could draw up the floor plans that we used. i worked 5am-4pm went to school 6 pm-10pm. 2yrs later in 2010 i got laid off, 4 months after my son was born, and 2 months after i graduated because the company was about to close down.

i stayed in school and took a management course just cuz i got approved for the financial aid. 1 of the projects we had was to start up our own pretend company, for some reason i choose to do t-shirts, i got into it and discovered i have a genuine passion for entrepreneurship, so since then ive dedicated myself to building my own little business empire and i realize that i didnt need a degree to accomplish that

 

[YungMutt]

smh business administration seems so oversaturated

 

[usmarin3]

Lol at business and finance. Shit is so generic.

Atleast its not a social science degree

 

[usmarin3]

what about law degree, that's what I'm working on now.

If you're not going to law school don't bother

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Finishing up my Accounting degree now. I'll be done in June. CPA next.

Bachelors? @buttuh_b

 

[black caesar]

I dont think theres any degrees that "get you hired" it really comes down to networking, and if you already have a foot in the door of a company.

There is no company's really are willing to take a risk on a completely random person that just graduated college.

i know various people that are recent graduates even with bachelors degrees in different majors that are still working minimum wage jobs.

I myself am kinda in the same position where i just graduated with my bachelors last june and am still working at a regular job but i decided to take what learned and apply it to starting my own business. I enrolled back into school but now i am not looking to get a degree, now i am taking classes focused on just things that will teach me the basics for things i feel i will need to know to run my business more effectively (ex: small business law, taxes, marketing etc) I only need to know the basics because i will learn the rest with experience.

Google The portable MBA PDF. Be sure to find the latest addition.

 

[GorillaWitAttitude]

#3 - Computer Science Degree

Computers are an indispensable part of the economy, and so are graduates who study computer science, which ranks as the third most valuable degree in today's job market.

Average Starting Salaries:

Computer Science: $61,205

Information Sciences & Systems: $54,038