Does Work Experience Equal School Project?
Does work experience carry the same weight with employers as the completion of a school project? Not in Tonya Buddie's experience. She's a non-traditional student of undisclosed age at Clarkson University. She met with seven employers and ten undergrad students to discuss how the school ranked among other schools as far as employment prospects.
"I listened as the employers, for the most part, agreed that a student with project involvement through their academic studies outranked those with related work experience. This baffled me. How can six years experience be not as good as or better than a school project? Even so, I still do not regret working first."
Have you had an experience like Tonya's? I agree with her, it's baffling how a company could give more weight to a single school project than to six years of experience, unless the experience does not relate to the job in question.
What do you think?
Comments
Accoeding to my knowledge as educator and researcher who conduct 400 industries in Thailand during the last 5 years and more. I realize that the role of education is to deliver cognitive skills(knowledge, reasoning, critical thinking, learning how to learn and so forth) but the roles of industry, workkplaces are to give the workers technical skills and behavior skills since schools cannot teach everything, but prepare them to the world of work or life.