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If you get nothing else form me at least get this GET A DEGREE

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tm37

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I got an email last week from a company that is looking for an electronics tech for field service in the medical equiptment deopartment.

I read the requirements and there were.

1 year exp ( I have four and a half)

Basic computer skills (I am intermeadiate at least)

and hopefully some feild service and it would be nice if was working with med equiptment.

oh yeah and an AA.

Well I went to school in the US NAVY and because I didn't have an AA I was totally disqualified.

The first email was very intered in you you have an abundanbce of experence and we are very intered in you ...


BTW do you have an AA?

Now I don;t have an AA and if I did have an AA you had better believe it wuold bne oin my resume.

I do have 4 1/2 + years as a tech in the medical equiptemnt department as a field service tech, I have 4 years prior to that in the nacvy and as a contractor for the navy.

I polietly emaileed the HR lady back that no I did not have an AA but I do have the military equivent. I got an Email today that I did not qualify for the job do to lack of education.

Now I have a job (that I probly would not have left) BUT it made me really mad. I have beed an electronics tech for over EIGHT YEARS I have worked with doctors for alomost five of that.

Yet they would rather have one year of electronics experence and a degree.

Listen here kiddies that peice of paper is damn important go get it.
 
Originally posted by: tm37
I got an email last week from a company that is looking for an electronics tech for field service in the medical equiptment deopartment.

I read the requirements and there were.

1 year exp ( I have four and a half)

Basic computer skills (I am intermeadiate at least)

and hopefully some feild service and it would be nice if was working with med equiptment.

oh yeah and an AA.

Well I went to school in the US NAVY and because I didn't have an AA I was totally disqualified.

The first email was very intered in you you have an abundanbce of experence and we are very intered in you ...


BTW do you have an AA?

Now I don;t have an AA and if I did have an AA you had better believe it wuold bne oin my resume.

I do have 4 1/2 + years as a tech in the medical equiptemnt department as a field service tech, I have 4 years prior to that in the nacvy and as a contractor for the navy.

I polietly emaileed the HR lady back that no I did not have an AA but I do have the military equivent. I got an Email today that I did not qualify for the job do to lack of education.

Now I have a job (that I probly would not have left) BUT it made me really mad. I have beed an electronics tech for over EIGHT YEARS I have worked with doctors for alomost five of that.

Yet they would rather have one year of electronics experence and a degree.

Listen here kiddies that peice of paper is damn important go get it.
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Do you have spelling?
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its all a game that you're stuck playing unfortunately. you can still advance without it but the chances are much less in your favor, particularly if you can't get in the door because of it.
 
The bad thing with not having a degree in these troubling times is that companies can pick and choose based on strickter requirements. I know alot of good engineering technicians with more than 10 years in the semicondutor field that can not get back in since the down turn do to no degree. Luckily for me semiconductor companies still take 6+ years as an ET in the Navy as an Associates.
 
Originally posted by: orion7144
The bad thing with not having a degree in these troubling times is that companies can pick and choose based on strickter requirements. I know alot of good engineering technicians with more than 10 years in the semicondutor field that can not get back in since the down turn do to no degree. Luckily for me semiconductor companies still take 6+ years as an ET in the Navy as an Associates.
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What irks me is that I have been pretty damn sucessful without the degree and when I lost my job because I refused to lie about a freind I was put in a pretty bad spot. I took a 12K a year pay cut.

Now I like my new job and I may beable to move up within the company BUT why the hell would anyone what to hire someone who has a degree and a year of bench experience over someone who has worked in field service for almost five years?

If I was hiring I would look for experence and references over education. I have met far to many stupid educated people in my life.
 
Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: orion7144
The bad thing with not having a degree in these troubling times is that companies can pick and choose based on strickter requirements. I know alot of good engineering technicians with more than 10 years in the semicondutor field that can not get back in since the down turn do to no degree. Luckily for me semiconductor companies still take 6+ years as an ET in the Navy as an Associates.
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What irks me is that I have been pretty damn sucessful without the degree and when I lost my job because I refused to lie about a freind I was put in a pretty bad spot. I took a 12K a year pay cut.

Now I like my new job and I may beable to move up within the company BUT why the hell would anyone what to hire someone who has a degree and a year of bench experience over someone who has worked in field service for almost five years?

If I was hiring I would look for experence and references over education. I have met far to many stupid educated people in my life.
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I totally agree with you on that. But unfortunately that is not how these big companies work. Most of them require a degree because they either have some arangement with the local schools or their customers require it.
 
Originally posted by: minendo
You have the experience, the HR department needs to pull their heads out of their asses.
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I could nor agree more with you however in this world we live these are the rules we live by.

 
What really pissis me off is that as a technician, be it electronics, medical etc., we can get hired overseas w/o a degree (must have good experience) in no time making alot more money and not having to pay taxes up to $70K.

In the semicondutor field alot of the jobs are going over there. Out of 110 or so FABs that are being built or in the planing stage, all but a hand full are in Asia. The worst part about that is that once you are in the field it is hard to get out since the pay and benefits are so good.
 
Screw the educational system. They suck. Not worth the money or the time. Unless of course, you REALLY REALLY like beer, babes, and drugs.
 
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