The Employer And Your Online Degree
There is only one reason why individuals opt to take online degrees and it
is not because they just want something to do. Individuals opting to take
a degree online will only do so if they want to better themselves or change
career and have something preventing them from going back to a campus school
full time. They may have family to look after, they may have to work full
time as well as studying, or they may have a busy life that they cannot cut
back on to go back to school. Whatever the reason, an online degree can help
individuals get to where they want to go. However, it can only do so if an
employer does not question the fact that they have an online degree.
Online education is still a hot topic amongst employers for a number of reasons.
Many employers welcome online educational qualifications because they recognise
the fact that the individuals that do train online have vital qualities that
the competition may not have and that they are also trained to the same level
as anyone completing a campus course. However, there are still some
traditionalist employers out there who will still question the fact that
the individuals did not sit in a classroom for three or four years. For some
reason, those employers do not perceive an online degree as of value.
However, these employers are few and far between now purely and simply because
the online degree graduates are filling jobs that may never have otherwise
been filled. They are responding to the demand and helping the country to
run much more smoothly than it has done in a long time. In truth, online
college degrees and technical qualifications have revolutionized the way
that the world of education and the world of industry work. Although attitudes
are changing, nobody taking an online degree should expect not to be challenged
when it is presented in a resume or in a job interview because it will most
likely still be a topic of discussion.
Attending a campus institution makes the degree easily identifiable and easy
to track in terms of what the candidate has indeed completed and what was
left outstanding. Online degrees are not as easy to trace and can prove to
be quite difficult to substantiate too. However, they both tend to have the
same amount of work involved with the latter providing far more useful personal
qualities that the latter in terms of working off one's own initiative and
time management skills. Whilst that is not to discredit campus graduates,
these are qualities that can be pointed out in an interview to try and help
a candidate's claim to a job!
An employer is well within his or her right to check up on an educational
background and may indeed be wary of individuals with online qualifications
from universities and colleges that are less well known because of the amount
of faking agencies out there. If an individual attended a local online university
instead of the University of Phoenix or Capella University then an employer
will be sceptical until everything actually checks out. It may even put them
off hiring you. This is just because of the healthy suspicion that still
lingers over the online degree, and with good reason. However, the larger
online universities are well-known enough by now to need no explanation.
The one question a potential employer will always ask though is why the candidate
chose to take an online degree instead of a campus course. This is a question
that you always need to be ready for and have a good answer prepared.
No matter how well you try to prepare for an interview, you can never count
on which way an employer will go or indeed what view of an online degree
he or she will take so you need to have answers prepared for every eventuality.
Trying to predict the reaction will often land you in more trouble in terms
of answers and justifications than assuming the worst. Always assuming the
worst is the best advice that you could take because you are then prepared
for anything. If you are confident and put faith in your degree, providing
evidence to substantiate the fact that it is real, it should no longer hold
you back!
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