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Will higher education or work experience get you ahead faster in your career?
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| Education | 42% | 453 votes | Total: 1066 votes | |
| Experience | 58% | 613 votes |
Education
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by Barry Marcus
Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: July 09, 2009
Higher education is a key to success both within and outside of the corporate world. Some qualifications
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by Mark Murphy
Created on: January 19, 2008 Last Updated: October 29, 2011
Up until around 30 years ago a person could go pretty far without anything more than a high school education.
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Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: April 08, 2011
Life experience allows us to learn from our mistakes. Higher education conversely provides
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by Koren Ribken
Created on: March 15, 2008
You have worked hard to prepare and type your resume. You write a cover letter that will jump out and
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Created on: January 01, 2011
No matter what the age of an individual, their background, or the career they've chosen, higher education
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Created on: April 24, 2010 Last Updated: April 27, 2010
Higher Education!
Get a degree! Then go to work. If working, find a way to get a degree.
Higher Education
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Created on: January 16, 2008 Last Updated: November 13, 2011
In corporate America, experience speaks higher of you than education. This is unfortunate, because in
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by Joseph Malek
Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: July 04, 2008
No matter how much you think about it, getting an education is also a way of gaining experience in whatever
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by Ryan Gray
Created on: November 13, 2008
From the time I started searching for my first job, I believed that experience was the key to success.
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Created on: November 28, 2008
Experience and education are equally valid ways of advancing your career. But if asked which is the
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by John Allen
Created on: January 17, 2008
Today with more than 65% of high school graduates enrolling in college and almost a full third of all
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Created on: June 19, 2010
This is quite an interesting debate to have regarding work experience and education since the two are
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Created on: March 14, 2008
My work experience started many years ago, right out of high school, in the government spectrum as a
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Created on: January 18, 2008
It appears to be an easy question, but really it is very complex. You could easily assume that experience
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by Ben Naude
Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: November 21, 2011
Obviously I'd much rather say you need a combination of both because although I am in the pro-higher
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Created on: January 13, 2008
The sad fact of the matter is, companies are far more inclined to look at your education as a representation
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Created on: January 17, 2008
In today's society it's the educational values that a person possesses and not the work experience that
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Experience
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by Nick Bianco
Created on: January 21, 2009
Experience will win over education every time. Work experience will provide an education in itself,
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Created on: April 28, 2010
It is easy for me to say that work experience counts for more than qualifications. For a start,
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Created on: February 06, 2010 Last Updated: May 06, 2012
What is more beneficial for the worker, a higher education or work experience? This is an age-old
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Created on: January 15, 2008 Last Updated: November 24, 2010
Work experience will help you more than education. Yes, education can lead to better things especially
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Created on: January 17, 2008
As a recent recipient of an MBA, it is clear that in the working world, your educational experience
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: January 17, 2008
I somewhat reluctantly have to vote on the side of experience. Now long retired, I can remember back
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by David Brown
Created on: December 25, 2008
Higher education is definitely nice to have, yet, this author is finding it personally hard to believe
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Created on: January 12, 2008
Everyday, several times a day, I hear people talking about the high cost a college education. Parents
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Created on: January 16, 2008
Nothing can take the place of experience, not even the most cleverly written instruction manual with
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Created on: October 23, 2009
I am a young adult with many friends who have graduated from college and graduate school in the last
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by Bill Whitney
Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: March 25, 2011
It doesn't matter if you have three doctorates, if you have no idea how to do the particular job and
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Created on: February 17, 2011
A quick visit to any job search website will verify that the requirements for even low-paying jobs and
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by Ivan Anthony
Created on: January 17, 2008
If you sit in a chair in a classroom for endless hours listening intently, trying to understand what
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Created on: January 17, 2008
Let me start off by giving you a bit of background to my own experiences with this subject.
I left secondary
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by Mina Sofia
Created on: October 24, 2009 Last Updated: October 25, 2009
Experience is the art to master your skills, skills acquired during many years of higher education.
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Created on: January 14, 2008
Will higher education or work experience get you ahead faster in your career? Degree holders may find
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by Mat Hudson
Created on: January 11, 2008 Last Updated: November 26, 2010
It is rare to find a parent or, or someone responsible for career development, that will extol the virtues
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by Ian Loft
Created on: January 17, 2008
I can say with absolute confidence that experience is far more valuable than a certificate or diploma
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by Kris Lee
Created on: January 18, 2008
Without doubt, having a higher level of education and a better diploma or degree tends to give a person
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