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zaphod:
Advanced degrees are nice to have, if for no other reason than you give more weight to your resume in case of ties on experience. I got my MIS some years ago just for my own edification. Company paid for it (except for books). Information I learned benefited both me and my company. I was shocked, though, at the overall low quality of graduate students in the MIS and MBA programs. Many of these students thought Access was an enterprise-quality database system.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: zaphod on February 15, 2008, 10:16:42 am --- Many of these students thought Access was an enterprise-quality database system.
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If someone with an MIS degree said that to me in an interview I would end it right then and there. No further discussion necessary. The person is either lying about their degree or got it from a can of Chef Boyardee.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 15, 2008, 09:47:29 am ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 14, 2008, 05:05:51 pm ---My mentor at the time said "If you want an MBA, just hire one."
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People always say that about other professions. The MBA students had a similar disdainful attitude towards lawyers. The MIS people had the same attitude towards computer scientists, etc.
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You assume it is disdain (since when is an MBA a profession?) ... perhaps that is due to your own experience. It wasn't disdain (we DID hire MBAs and I do so today!) -- it was a reminder that getting a degree to put on a resume doesn't necessarily add value to your life. It may let you climb one rung higher on some ladder, but it won't result in a massive swing in career success or personal fulfillment. He was encouraging me to be more entreprenurial and take some risks instead of resigning myself to the linear path. Perhaps it is coincidence that I have not assembled a resume since.
My sister has no illusions about why she is doing her MBA -- it is a requirement for her to move up the ladder. If she isn't happy being on the ladder, then the MBA will do nothing to change that.
zaphod:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 15, 2008, 10:18:22 am ---
--- Quote from: zaphod on February 15, 2008, 10:16:42 am --- Many of these students thought Access was an enterprise-quality database system.
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If someone with an MIS degree said that to me in an interview I would end it right then and there. No further discussion necessary. The person is either lying about their degree or got it from a can of Chef Boyardee.
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Agree 100% about ending the interview. Scary thing is, these kids are getting jobs with state agencies where the managers believe that same thing. And people wonder why government has problems getting things done.
Large, well-regarded public institutions allow these people to graduate, just not "Chef Boyardee-U".
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: zaphod on February 15, 2008, 10:33:07 am ---Large, well-regarded public institutions allow these people to graduate, just not "Chef Boyardee-U".
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A large institution doesn't stay well regarded turning out graduates like that. I saw it happening too when I was in college, though. At Northeastern there was a substantial percentage of the Cmpsci dept that was buying its way through the program. There were guys graduating who couldn't C their way out of a paper bag - despite having taken most of their programming and algorithms classes in that language. They were buying homework from other guys. I had a couple of people approach me for my projects. I had no interest in getting kicked out of school, but if I had been willing to risk that, there was a lot of money to be made from wealthy foreign national students.
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