Originally Posted by
Dan_Brown
Anyone know why they want academics, apart from "Image" issues??
We're mostly The Blind Men and the Elephant on such issues since the HRs are mute on the fine points of their criteria and the subjectivity that goes with them.
A few answers are offered to that question. They seem to use achieving a 4-year degree as an indication of one's ability to learn in a defined time frame and/or proof of one's sticktoitiveness.
All this while studiously ignoring all the other items on a CV that also prove the same thing...and often with more applicability to the job's realities.
They may think there's some image aspect to it but to whom are they trying to sell this image...the traveling public who don't give a rat's about any of this ?
But...their game/their rules. Hard fact of life despite what those in the trenches think.