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Topic
Board Economics
Re: School or Skills?
by
Bluedrem
on 23/04/2025, 08:48:48 UTC
By my assumptions, there are strong indications already that we are moving past an era where employers put educational qualifications at the fore front of their requirement for employment into certain positions, some employers now hold personal qualities such as skills possessed by the individual ahead of the school they went to and the degree they graduated with. First, I would like to ask, could this be a reflection of a failing educational system? My second question is that if you happen to be the employer here, which will you consider more, school or skills?

Both of us need to have these two activities in ourselves. Because if you are applicable to the job field, then you need to have two things, degree and diploma. Your educational qualification will be considered for employment in a position. When you are accessed by looking at your documents, after that your qualities and skills will be considered. How far you are ahead in terms of skills is considered as a job by the employer. In other words, we need both school and skills.

You are right both of them are important, I think going to school in this generation is now like a back up plan, you do with the hopes that when something comes up you can have a degree to present..one thing that's inevitable is that no matter how skillful a person is without a certificate backing you up the man with low quality skills compared to yours might have the upper hand in terms of getting some jobs..this is why when most people get a job based on the skill they have they still need obtain a degree so that they can get higher position and offer.. education can facilitate the results of your skills.

In the country where I live there is a saying "without a certificate or a diploma you cannot be called a civilized person". I translated it only approximately, but I think you understood the essence of it. And I want to say that I agree with this statement, because a person without education is useless for the state in the mechanism of work relations. He will not be recognized at the interview, he will not be promoted even if he is an excellent specialist. Also, if at the official job where he somehow miraculously gets a job, he will be the first to be laid off. It is sad, but these are the facts.

I think it is better not to associate success with certificates or jobs, they may not complement each other. If a person earns a degree through education but knows very little about the work at hand and his skills are not that sharp, he will not be successful in the workplace. And if someone has good skills, he can earn a living through various types of work even beyond his academic qualifications.
Both school and skills are important, but if we do percentages, then skills are more important than school.