Does it matter where you get your degree from? It appears not for much longer.....

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adolf hamster said:
tbf there is a difference between going on holiday and rocking up to work in a foreign country.

could just be typical early homesickness or maybe she's just not cut out for that line of work, either way it's understandable.
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It is pretty clear she's not cut out for that line of work, that was the point!
 
adolf hamster said:
don't see how that relate's to the quality of her degree though? it's more of just a straight up personality/life experience thing
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it has nothing to do with the quality of her degree, you seem to have stepped in mid way through the conversation without reading it
 
We had a bit of training on something like this at work called "Unconscious Bias" where you unconsciously favour certain people, genders, institutions, names, and hobbies (in the context of looking at someones CV).
 
How long before you just send in a blank sheet of paper?
The cv's I get to read when hiring hardly ever give a true picture of the individual, I suppose it filters the dross, but to be honest some of our best people had average at best cv's. The the guy who have the best interview, turned out to be useless.
 
Wonder how long it'll be before you don't have to disclose the subject that your degree either because that could lead to people be biased thinking and stereotyping? Imagine the joy of turning up for work one morning to find the new guy, an effeminate sounding millennial by the name of Cash, doesn't even know what a T-700 engine is, let alone how to safely remove one from it's housing and strip it down, because his degree happens to be in Interpretative African Dance.
 
Malevolence said:
Wonder how long it'll be before you don't have to disclose the subject that your degree either because that could lead to people be biased thinking and stereotyping? Imagine the joy of turning up for work one morning to find the new guy, an effeminate sounding millennial by the name of Cash, doesn't even know what a T-700 engine is, let alone how to safely remove one from it's housing and strip it down, because his degree happens to be in Interpretative African Dance.
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I can quite believe it, the country has gone bonkers!
 
Malevolence said:
Wonder how long it'll be before you don't have to disclose the subject that your degree either because that could lead to people be biased thinking and stereotyping? Imagine the joy of turning up for work one morning to find the new guy, an effeminate sounding millennial by the name of Cash, doesn't even know what a T-700 engine is, let alone how to safely remove one from it's housing and strip it down, because his degree happens to be in Interpretative African Dance.
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LabR@t said:
I can quite believe it, the country has gone bonkers!
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ladies and gentleman- I give you, the daily mail!
 
I’m somewhat indifferent on this. I don’t really see a trend between university and ‘prowess’ in my line of work. Save for perhaps oxbridge it’s not really indicative of any candidate’s character (and I don’t find oxbridge to necesssarily be an indicator of prowess either).
 
Moses said:
Could also be all sorts of complicating factors. She could have just broken up with a long term partner, someone in the family could have been ill, someone could have recently died, she could have to worry about sorting out care for a family member, she could have been going through a period of depression which she’s now fully recovered from, etc.
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No, she was home sick/decided she didn't fancy being there and came home after a week. There was no leave request for a funeral or need for time off to visit sick family members, she came back to the London office and got moved into a CS team.
 
Moses said:
My point is you don’t know for sure what complexities, if any, were in her life at that point.
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I'm pretty certain the ones you suggested didn't apply. She wanted to come home because she was home sick, she'd taken up a job as a consultant and then bailed after only one week in France. Unfortunately she was apparently pretty useless in the CS role she got re-assigned to too.
 
Moses said:
That doesn’t mean you definitively know her personal circumstances.
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I didn't claim I did, it isn't really relevant. You can use that line in response to almost any criticism of anyone. She wasn't a very good employee/was pretty useless was the main point. The being sent to France as a consultant and then deciding that she was home sick, consultancy wasn't for her was just one example.

The main point was that as much as there might be useless army officers out there there are plenty more useless people who slip through the net in grad schemes at large companies and I'd wager that someone who can't get hired by any grad scheme probably isn't going to have good odds of getting past the army selection board and through officer training.
 
Moses said:
My point is you don’t actually know if she was useless or merely appeared so because of some personal reason you’re not privy to. It’s quite simple.
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I know, but it is kind of a non-point that you could apply to anyone in plenty of circumstances any time they do something seemingly useless. Essentially you can't therefore criticise anyone because you don't know their personal circumstances.

Regardless of this she was useless, it wasn't just this incident that was just one example.
 
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