ENEB - exams

[nykorn]

Question for the people who've already received a degree from ENEB: Have you received any promotions, job offers, recruiter talks, or had any job interviews where the ENEB degree aided you, or qualified you for the job or industry? And how did you market the degree? 

I got 1 promotion and 1 actual job from the ENEB degrees.

1) Got the ENEB degree in Hotel Management and got a promotion (to front desk, not manager, although it has some accounting and managerial duties) at the hotel I was already working at, which came with just a few cents' pay raise.

2) Listed that Hotel Management degree as a "postgraduate certificate" on my resume and got a job at a tax office due to it (paying $5 more per hour than my previous hotel job). I now have a clear way up the ladder and am told my credentials together with my work performance and future experience can get me as much as $45/hour. They say with my current progress and attitude at work, I can get a pay raise of $4 more per hour in as little as a few months.

The reason I listed it as a postgraduate is because I didn't want to send the wrong signal that I had in-depth knowledge or experience on the subject. A post-graduate is shorter than a Bachelor's and less serious than a Master's. I specifically used the Hotel degree and not another ENEB degree more related to the tax job because again, I didn't want to signal that I had much knowledge. I wrote it as Isabel. Neither company asked to actually see the degree nor ask to see a credit evaluation, in fact neither even asked me what I had learned from it, it was literally like a "check in the box" to them.

I have no experience whatsoever in taxes and haven't even been living in the US so I have less knowledge of US taxes than the average American adult. I walked into this job completely blind. The hiring manager at the tax job said it isn't the content of the degree that matters, it's that getting the degree proves I both can and have the drive to learn, and also the company's hiring requirements were that the person had to have a degree in either Business or Accounting, so my Management degree qualified me for the position.

You'd never be able to bluff your way through a job interview that was expecting deep knowledge if you only had the ENEB degree, you'd have to be doing hardcore studying on the side from other sources. So yes I think you can expect the ENEB degrees to help you, but you aren't going to hop into a position paying $300/hr overnight. If your only goal is "a job", and not "the best job" or even "a good paying job", then ENEB should help.

I haven't tried it, but ENEB would also get you a public school teaching license, which is pretty much a guaranteed job that in my state typically pays $25/hr. Look at websites like "iteach Hawaii" for Alternative Teacher Certification, you pay $5,000 for the program but get a salary as you do a teaching internship in Hawaii. The internship itself would end up paying for both the costs of the program and your ENEB degree.