Degrees Or No Degrees What Do They Mean To The Employer

I have an extensive background in Electronics and an Associate of Science Degree to go with it. Normally job postings have in the past been very stringent on whether you had a Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree in order to be hired.

It seems that that was relaxed to the point of adding in an equivalent number of years worth of work experience if you did not have a degree.

Now in these economic times we find that both people with degrees and without are in the same unemployment line because of the lack of jobs.

Recently I heard that companies like UPS or FEDEX were hiring people with Bachelors degrees to just deliver boxes. The company's reasoning was that those kinds of people had a lot at stake between student loans, mortgages and families and were more likely to do their best to work hard and keep their jobs. The companies also realize that if the job market changes, those are also the first workers that will leave for better jobs.

I look at the down turn in the job market and economy as a time when getting an education is not only important, but crucial. This is the time when financially it is hard to go out and earn a degree, but with the Government incentives and the Colleges looking for serious students that are willing to put their time in, a degree can be had in a shorter period of time.

Often Colleges give credit towards experience and so a shortened educational time is required and therefore it is less expensive to get a degree.

Whether a degree will matter as much later on remains to be seen, but I am also seeing where some jobs are requiring both the experience AND the degree.

So if you have time, even a few hours a week and access to a computer, talk to some of the Universities and you might be pleasantly surprised to find out that you can get that degree now and be ready if it is needed in the future.

I started requesting information on a Bachelors degree and have been deluged by Universities that are hungry to get serious students. It doesn't cost anything except your time to find out more. It could be time well spent.