Well said Cowhorse!
To echo your sentiment, the rationale you have provided is why the majority of military officers are degree educated and why a lot of graduate schemes in the UK just require 'a degree'. It demonstrates commitment and the ability to learn.
Having said that, not everyone requires a graduate level of education, but in certain professional and industrial circles it is most definitely appreciated.
I have worked hard at everything throughout my life and have had some success in some unusual and fairly specialist roles.
As a result, I could be considered to have a bizarre, yet half decent CV. Only a few years ago I would have been a realistic contender for a
professional airline pilot's job...
However, what we are now witnessing is a profession rapidly becoming a 'job'.
I now find myself in the position that no matter how well qualified I am, with 'highly relevant' professional work experience and qualifications I would still lose out if sat in a room with your 'fitness instructor' that doesn't have two qualifications to rub together.
Put simply. He has 30k. I don't.
I guess I'm not alone...
Having said that, I have friends who work in other sectors. It's not just the airlines where training budgets are minimal/non existent for the role that people are being asked to perform.
It is also not unusual for 'expensive' experienced people to be shown the door, via some unscrupulous means and to be replaced by a trainee or the woefully inexperienced. They're a 'cost effective way of employing someone'.
HR/Directors don't care who is in post - as long as there is a bum on a seat and they're cheap. Such is this moronic 'McDonaldisation' of everything in the Western world, where the only people who gain from such practice are the directors and shareholders at the expense of the quality of work/product/service etc...
I say that as a staunch top hat wearing, urchin flogging capitalist, too...
The uneven distribution of wealth in the Western world is moving to ridiculous levels.
What we see in the airline industry is just a small part of this...
