Alan Pope wrote: > I've worked in large blue-chip FSTE100 companies with complete fools > with good degrees who but couldn't perform simple problem diagnosis. > They may be fools, but they have jobs in FTSE100 companies :-)
Here's the way it works: - Some people will recruit based on "experience" - Some people will recruit based on "education" I have met the occasional person with an anti-graduate recruitment policy, but for every one of these, I've met 50 with a pro-graduate recruitment policy. Chris Rowson wrote: > It'd be interesting for people to put their money where their mouth's > are, and tell us what they do for a living and what their level of > qualification is. It's the only real way to see if having a degree > makes a difference or not. > Actually, the REAL way is to look at Government statistics on how much graduates and non-graduates in their 30s and 40s make... I've not seen them for about 5 years... but when I did, the graduates were nicely out-earning the non-graduates, despite the fact that the latter had 3 more years experience. However, since you asked :-) Mark Harrison, aged 36 (until Saturday). University of Oxford, BA and MA, 1989-1992. 1992-7: Mott MacDonald ltd., started in front line support. Within 5 years was UK support manager, responsible for supporting 2,500 staff across 4 locations. [Graduate entry programme.] (Started buying rental property in 1994... this will become important later). 1997-2000: BP/Bovis, European IT Manager, responsible for all aspects of IT in a joint venture company across 17 countries. 2000-2003: Head of Systems, eKingfisher. Responsible for the websites for Woolworths, Superdrug, B&Q, Comet and Screwfix. 2003-: Making good money from the rental property, retired, became a full-time dad for 6 months, but got hellishly bored, and therefore... 2003- date: "Portfolio life"... in 2005-2006, I was a non-executive Director at Domia ltd... currently I'm 1: CTO at a financial services company, 2: run a training company, and 3: an author (non-fiction, non-IT). Matthew Larsen wrote: > Example: Would you rather take someone > with a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University or from Essex > Polytechnic? > Essex Polytechnic, obviously. Mark Harrison, BA, MA, MBCS .... and could get be CITP if I ever got around to filling in the paperwork and sending off the cheque :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
