Posts: 322
Threads: 9
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Aug 2006
taylor Wrote:I'm content with my TESC degree, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't have got my current job without it. But it definitely is just a check mark on an application. However, there were 2 interviews I did with 2 different Fortune 100 companies where they did ask me about TESC towards the end of the interview as if the school was a figment of my imagination. I'm not hiding the MS, just putting forth the best set of credentials that I think would allow me to obtain the job with the company that I desire. With larger companies I've seen more value given to an MS than with smaller but growing companies. In IT the smaller companies seem to favor experience and certifications.
To me that's the ideal use of a big 3 degree, to tick the "bachelor's degree?" box on applications for jobs and grad school.
I m edumakated thanx to distunce lerning.
MEd, Texas A&M University, 2018
MBA, University of North Dakota, 2014
MS, University of Illinois Springfield, 2010
BSBA, Thomas Edison State University, 2008
AS / AAS, Tidewater Community College, 2004
![[-]](https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/images/collapse.png)
•
Posts: 802
Threads: 32
Likes Received: 2 in 2 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Oct 2009
taylor Wrote:Personally, I would leave the MS on all my job applications if I had one, overqualified or not. I'm sure you put a lot of time, money, and effort in attaining the degree, why hide it? But that's just my opinion Why would one hide an advanced degree?
Organizations prefer not to interview/hire/put through training people that they deem overqualified because there is the threat that once a better position comes along for that individual, the employee will head towards greener pastures and the organization will be out whatever they invested into the employee.
By leaving the degree off the resume, they have a greater chance to make it to an interview where they can fully disclose the fact of an advanced degree, but it also gives them the opportunity to engage the interviewer and build a framework to work towards easing/dismissing the concerns the organization may have about possibly hiring someone who is deemed overqualified. If you can't get your foot in the door to interview, you can't demonstrate yourself to the company.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius. I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let's get down to basics: you are a rabbit and I am going to eat you for supper. Now don't try to get away, I am more muscular, more cunning, faster and larger than you are, and I am a genius, while you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten, so I'll give you the customary two minutes to say your prayers.
Bachelor of Science in PsychoRabbitology degree
Master of Education with a specialty in Rabbit-specific destructive munitions (or eLearning & Technology, I forget which)
Doctor of Philosophy in Wile E. Leadership with an area of specialty in Acme Mind Expansion - 2017 Hopefully
•
Posts: 322
Threads: 9
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Aug 2006
TMW2010 Wrote:Why would one hide an advanced degree?
Organizations prefer not to interview/hire/put through training people that they deem overqualified because there is the threat that once a better position comes along for that individual, the employee will head towards greener pastures and the organization will be out whatever they invested into the employee.
By leaving the degree off the resume, they have a greater chance to make it to an interview where they can fully disclose the fact of an advanced degree, but it also gives them the opportunity to engage the interviewer and build a framework to work towards easing/dismissing the concerns the organization may have about possibly hiring someone who is deemed overqualified. If you can't get your foot in the door to interview, you can't demonstrate yourself to the company. Exactly. I recently relocated to Houston without a job, and when I sent out resumes with the MS included I didn't get a callback. When I left it off, the interest took off. Several times during the interview process I'd mention the MS and wouldn't hear anything back. The job I'm currently in preferred an advanced degree, but as I've continued to put out feelers for jobs I continue to leave it off. To me there's nothing wrong with this. It's a means to an end.
I m edumakated thanx to distunce lerning.
MEd, Texas A&M University, 2018
MBA, University of North Dakota, 2014
MS, University of Illinois Springfield, 2010
BSBA, Thomas Edison State University, 2008
AS / AAS, Tidewater Community College, 2004
•
Posts: 454
Threads: 25
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Oct 2009
bawhitsett Wrote:Exactly. I recently relocated to Houston without a job, and when I sent out resumes with the MS included I didn't get a callback. When I left it off, the interest took off. Several times during the interview process I'd mention the MS and wouldn't hear anything back. The job I'm currently in preferred an advanced degree, but as I've continued to put out feelers for jobs I continue to leave it off. To me there's nothing wrong with this. It's a means to an end.
Yeah, I guess you got to do what you got to do. I actually did the same thing about 6 months ago and I know how stressful that can be. Moved back to Cali with no job, 1 suitcase and a TESC degree, that's pretty much it. Now I got 2 jobs but I'm getting that itch to get an advanced degree.
TESC AA
TESC BA June 2010
•
Posts: 322
Threads: 9
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Aug 2006
taylor Wrote:Yeah, I guess you got to do what you got to do. I actually did the same thing about 6 months ago and I know how stressful that can be. Moved back to Cali with no job, 1 suitcase and a TESC degree, that's pretty much it. Now I got 2 jobs but I'm getting that itch to get an advanced degree. Cali I imagine was a different beast altogether as far as looking for a job goes. Glad it worked out for you.
I m edumakated thanx to distunce lerning.
MEd, Texas A&M University, 2018
MBA, University of North Dakota, 2014
MS, University of Illinois Springfield, 2010
BSBA, Thomas Edison State University, 2008
AS / AAS, Tidewater Community College, 2004
•
Posts: 454
Threads: 25
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Oct 2009
bawhitsett Wrote:Cali I imagine was a different beast altogether as far as looking for a job goes. Glad it worked out for you.
Thanks, I was on pin and needles for a month. I actually looked into UIS a little bit for an MBA when I was finishing out at TESC but I knew moving and getting a job was going to be my top priority after I got my BA.
How'd you like UIS? How long did it take for you to finish your Masters and were you were working full time?
TESC AA
TESC BA June 2010
•
|
