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If you could choose which one to have right now would it be a college degree, trade school certificate or enough relevant experience?

If you could choose one to have right now would it be a college degree, trade school certificate or enough relevant experience? Which do you feel is more beneficial in today’s market?

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Katherine Gunther
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I would choose enough relevant experience also! I personally have a college degree because years ago my answer would have been that, a degree. However since earning that degree and learning the hard way that a degree and no real experience is basically useless and has in fact got me much much farther in debt and still chasing careers that pay nothing, have nothing to do with that degree or any others and being passed over each and every time I apply for a job in which my degree is relevant and I am constantly seeing and hearing that those who are getting the best overall positions can be both classically and self educated but they all have relevant experience and those who don't are being overlooked and not given the chance to prove there worth ... company want the guarantee and they don't want to take a chance... Personally I think this practice sucks cause some of us could turn out to be an asset maybe even the next big thing but will never get the chance ....

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Kelly Pieper
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Enough relevant experience

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Sandra Franquiz Gomez
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Soy TSU en Relaciones Industriales

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JAY JAYNES
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College great foundation for careers however I chose to enter the military

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Kathleen Byle
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Depends. In a highly technical area like the physical sciences, a degree. Few companies are willing to take on a nuclear engineer without a degree. The exception to that is military service. I have a friend who’s son joined the Air Force and is in trade school for cybersecurity. After his enlistment is over, he’ll have a career inside or outside the military.

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Experience is a treasure, but if you don't have a degree, employers will not open the door for you, because knowledge is the foundation, experience is the process of accumulation during work. Just like when you build a house, if you don't have a good foundation, the house will not be sustainable.

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Ronald Kaan
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Ok

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Ronald Kaan
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Yes

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Siwatu Marshall
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Relevant experience because it is good for that field to get started pretty quickly

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Samantha Lundbohm
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Education

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