I have known one. The last job I worked, an opening came available for a Company CEO (Chief Executive Officer). The guy that was hired lived in NYC and had graduated from Princeton University. The company paid all of his moving costs, to move to Denver. He is the only one, but I have seen a young person wearing a Yale sweatshirt.
During my managerial days, I encountered a number of people from places like Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc. When interviewing them, a good many were full of themselves (e.g. ready to be president of the co.very soon now) that I often passed on them and hired grads who could listen, learn and showed an appreciation for what they didn't know.
Well, John, when a person graduates from a top-notch college/university, they have already spent time and money learning what they need to. A company will generally hire a highly educated person due to what they know and their Degree. I don't have a college degree, that's why I had to "listen and learn", because all I had was experience.
@Cody Fousnaugh Generally, they will, but not often. Needing an experienced engine mechanic will not produce a job offer to the degreed Engineer, for example. As a prospective employer, how do you "know" in advance of hiring someone, how much "they know"? Test them? I once had an interviewer during a routine application as Facilities Engineer, blurt out suddenly, "What is MV-squared". He turned out to be a retired senior facilities engineer from Boeing who had been summoned to interview applicants for jobs at a new McDonnell Douglas helicopter plant. He chose not to make an offer........... Frank
I’ve been to and still attend the most prestigious university on the planet. The very tough University of Life
Yes I have known a few. No common sense in life matters. Their only expertise was in the field of whatever their degree was. Titles have never impressed me.
I generally found that "graduates" who are willing to listen, learn and work made for better hires than those who felt entitled to some higher position, standing or salary because of the relative prestige of their alma mater. A diploma proves you can pass tests, not that you are smart, adaptive, creative, disciplined, hard working, etc.
Well, then there are those managers, that will only hire someone with a bachelors degree. My wife worked for such a company and manager.
In red above: I disagree with this completely! My wife has two AA's and a Bachelors and she is very smart when it comes to Accounting and Finance. She has been both a Senior Accountant and Financial Analyst. And, she was/is much more hard working and disciplined than I ever was on the job.
This is why titles impress me: My last manager/director had the following= Bachelors Degree and two certifications from A.P.I.C.S.. One certification was CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) and the other was CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management. With these titles, he would've never been hired at the manager/director of the Materials Department that I worked in. And, he sure wouldn't have got the salary he did.
@Cody Fousnaugh Honesty and relevance in salaries are nonexistent. One well-known basketball player's contract amounted to paying him $12,000 for EVERY SINGLE TIME HE THREW THE BALL AT THE BASKET over a year's time. This is salary equity? Frank
Salary equality, just what is that? Without a college degree, I'm sure not going to get the same salary as someone with a college degree. A lot of folks today talk about "salary equality", but why? A company sure isn't going to pay a regular warehouseman the same salary as a warehouse supervisor, even though the warehouseman would love that.
Ask you local plumber or electrician whether he thinks a college degree would increase his pay. There are numerous examples of tradesmen making way more than degreed people.
The degrees didn’t make your wife smart nor do they mean that your wife is smart. All they mean is that she did the work that is required to achieve those degrees. Your wife was smart way before she achieved those sheepskins.