When she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1966, she was the only woman with an engineering degree, hired to work on a planned mission to Mars that was canceled a few years later after budget cuts.
External recruitment of experienced skilled workers, the internal qualification and training of employees without a vocational degree, hiring graduates from full time school-based education programs and public training workshop, and hiring university dropouts are all substitutes to providing own apprenticeships.
I am going to send him to study in America, yes, sir, to America, because here you can study day and night and then there's no work, but when you have an American degree they hire you right away.
To them, the money they spend is not so different from, say, investing in a business degree or hiring a career coach.
Their study of 90,000 people, to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at the University of Cambridge, speculates that one reason for the causal link may be that people with sunny dispositions are more likely to get a degree, get hired and get promoted.
Not only did the company not uncover Thompson's real degree before hiring him, it failed to do a few Google (er, Yahoo) searches today and see that even his alma mater is still describing him as an accounting major. .
I'd like to think that most people see it for what it is: evidence that a fellow who has a master's degree was hired to cut down a professor's tree.
Morrison points out that the company drops traditional requirements such as a degree qualification to hire the right people.
Why or why not? -Do employers place too much emphasis on college degrees for hiring and promotion decisions?
Penguin Random House was following the lead of the accountancy firm Ernst & Young, which declared that it would no longer consider A-level results and degrees when hiring.
