Does Work Experience Equal School Project?
Does Work Experience Equal School Project? Tuesday October 27, 2009 Does work experience carry the same weight with employers as the completion of a school project? Not in Tonya Buddie’s experience. She’s a non-traditional student of undisclosed age at Clarkson University. She met with seven employers and ten undergrad students to discuss how the school ranked among other schools as far as employment prospects. “I listened as the employers, for the most part, agreed that a student with project involvement through their academic studies outranked those with related work experience. This baffled me. How can six years experience be not as good as or better than a school project? Even so, I still do not regret working first.” Have you had an experience like Tonya’s? I agree with her, it’s baffling how a company could give more weight to a single school proje
