New Walden Tempo CBE Postdoc Certs; Could Tempo CBE Doctorates Be Next?

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Doctoral degrees

Doctoral degrees are primarily valuable for careers in teaching and research. You shouldn’t pursue a doctorate unless it’s truly necessary for your desired role. Much like starting a business, earning a doctoral degree can carry significant risk if the return on investment doesn’t materialize, especially if you change your mind about your career path later on.

Some of these newer online options can reduce the time and cost of earning a doctoral degree, which lowers your risk.

Credential-Focused vs. Skill-Focused Hiring

The trend is moving toward skill-focused hiring, especially for jobs in tech, creative fields, and marketing. However, some fields still lean toward credential-focused hiring, which is sometimes required for licensing.

Whether or not you need a graduate degree for jobs that don’t require it is debatable.

I think that graduate degrees can be unecessary if your job doesn't require it. I have a 20+ career in counseling. I was interviewing for a manager job in the counseling field and I was told by the board that counselor's don't make good bosses because they think a certain way and that he recommended that any counselor going to be manager in the counseling field should really look at getting their MBA. I think if someone is going to make a career change then getting a graduate degree can be beneficial than going back and getting another undergrad degree. But experience is going to be helpful.

I can see how the Walden courses can open up the individual to being able to teach graduate business courses. If they have a different major like psychology and want to cross over into business psychology. When I was working on my doctorate degree I had some professors with two doctorate degrees. Which can also be argued as unecessary.