IT Employment

hi u cant say that there isn't a job for everyone first of all the society is getting bigger and bigger there is more ways of making a living provided we discover them, well indeed we see unemployments around us thats bad, but being humans we should find ways of discovering jobs esp those at which we have the potential within us to put forward and most importanly living in a society like this our education manipulates us to face chanllenges and basically that happens only if our brains develop thru years of education in other words when we come to a certain level we come to know what we should do next and its only at that point of level we come to know... will give u a short exp of myself when i was doing my grad my dad came upto me and was like "nazil u r eating my money do something " i felt bad even cried that day but after a year i came to know what he actually meant and that was "i should be walkin on my feet" so i took up a part time job coping up with my studies so basically now feels great about my dads decesions cos if after my educations and on the verge of my job hunting i would have been not well prepared to take up but now the confidence has already built within me .... so dude better think cos i dont want u to repent later for the time u wasted for not taking up a grad

"Obviously there isn't a job for EVERYONE who invests their time, money, and energy on schooling."

Yes, that's true. So do the math. Extrapolate the jobs that are available to the people who DON'T do that!

There are a lot of really good people looking for work, competing against each other... and against YOU! The job market is utterly awful. Anything a person can do to increase his opportunities is worth doing.

A master's degree won't necessarily move your resume to the top of the pile on a hiring manager's desk. What it will do is give you the qualifications to get your resume ONTO the desks of some hiring managers who otherwise would never receive it.

I would invert your question and then the answer is a no-brainer. I know a LOT of people who did NOT get a degree and that strategy has definitely NOT paid off for them, on the average. I can't point to any specific people who have only a B.S. or B.A. and are not getting jobs because they don't have an M.S. or M.A. (Or--yucch--an M.B.A., what a way to take the fun out of getting educated.) But I do know a number of them who are pretty desperate for work. Whereas no one I know with a master's degree has been unemployed for a significant period of time.

While a formal education does not determine if you are a capable tech (as many of us know here), it is still a bench mark that is used in MANY companies when they are looking for techs beyond entry level.

Keep in mind, it is often non-technical people that are the first line in hiring people and they almost always College grads themselves and so will place an even hirer emphasis on College because it helps to validate themselves.

Just a degree is often not enough. Getting a valid mix of certs and education will serve you well.

Note: There are many here without either that will tell you up and down that both formal eduction and certs are a waste of time, but in the tight markets, you need something to make you stand out. To these people I say, don't get any letters behind your name. It makes it easier for the rest of us.

Exceptions are to be made for people that had 10+ years in the field BEFORE certs and formal education became so profitable.

At uni, you learn alot more than just the details of the subject you study - teamwork, report writing, communication skills, project management, prioritisation etc all in a formal environment. Its very tempting not to do a degree when you hear of peole "working their way up" or friends the same age are out there earning money, but getting a degree proves you can work hard to achieve a goal and have all of the transferrable skills above.

Now i'm in a management position I can definately see the difference employees with and without degrees - not so much in subject knowledge, but in transferrable skills, ability to learn and problem solving

I'd employee and IT grad over someone the same age with with experience, if the market is over saturated with college grads what chance do you have without one?

good luck