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How Long Is A College Degree Relevant?
While reading resumes for an open position recently, an interesting thought surfaced: How long is a college degree relevant?
This question may immediately make some people feel queasy. Specifically, the people that still have huge amounts of debt many years after being awarded that coveted piece of paper at an institute of higher learning. This is a feeling exacerbated by the realization that many years later, much of the detailed knowledge imparted in those glory days of learning has faded.
Yet, we should not consider this as an argument for, or against, a college degree.
From the standpoint of an Engineering Manager, a college degree provides a great deal of value and information when reviewing resumes. The hiring process is all about guesswork and assumptions based on a very limited data set. While the inferences made during this process can be faulty sometimes, it allows us to avoid many variables in favor of other topics and items of interest.
However, you will not get hired just because you have a college degree.
When completing such a course of study, specifically in Engineering, an assumed context…
