Skills
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Yeah - unless you’re in a really technical role, the highest value of a degree is a signaling mechanism.
You show that you can buckle down, jump through hoops and get shit down. Which is a huge part of most jobs.
If you can hold down a job for a few years - it tends to signal that as well.
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I've never understood why McDonalds and Starbucks hire so many English and history graduates. Surely they'd be better off hiring people with cooking qualifications in the case of McDonalds, and IT network skills in the case of Starbucks.
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Let me 'splain something, Lucy...
Federal employment centers around three things, acronym KSA. The government loves acronyms. KSA stands for Knowledge, Skills and Ability. That's pretty self explanatory, although to do the grading system justice, you better list every scintilla of KSAs you have.
A couple of things can give you a leg up...Veteran's Preference has a positive impact on your score. That's fine by me. Another factor is education. For many jobs, education level will exclude you or it will determine which GS level you can qualify for. That's fine for things which require licensure and certification, such as a Registered Nurse, but it can be a hindrance in certain other fields. For example, I worked with a guy who had a M.S. In Administration, which allowed him to get a job managing the housekeepers and lawn crew at the local VA hospital. Didn't matter he didn't know beans about housekeeping or grounds care. The degree is what counted.
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I'd hate to work for the government. I've worked with various departments as a consultant both in the UK and here, but didn't like the look of it at all. There were some brilliant people there, but also some real morons.
I'd also hate to still work for a publicly traded company. They fire people just to make the monthly numbers look good to shareholders who know nothing about the business.
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Let me 'splain something, Lucy...
Federal employment centers around three things, acronym KSA. The government loves acronyms. KSA stands for Knowledge, Skills and Ability. That's pretty self explanatory, although to do the grading system justice, you better list every scintilla of KSAs you have.
A couple of things can give you a leg up...Veteran's Preference has a positive impact on your score. That's fine by me. Another factor is education. For many jobs, education level will exclude you or it will determine which GS level you can qualify for. That's fine for things which require licensure and certification, such as a Registered Nurse, but it can be a hindrance in certain other fields. For example, I worked with a guy who had a M.S. In Administration, which allowed him to get a job managing the housekeepers and lawn crew at the local VA hospital. Didn't matter he didn't know beans about housekeeping or grounds care. The degree is what counted.
That resonates. When I went through my green card process - there was a crazy precise legalistic inventory of the specific things I do at my job and specific degree requirements. It's a level of precision that's foreign to most people in the private sector - and I do a ton of very intense recruiting and hiring activities.
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Hey Ax, should I have continued to read after:
"Cogley, a political science professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, who wrote a series of opinion pieces against the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was named a deputy director for policy. Korzeniewski, a former campaign consultant to the pro-Trump..."
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