Timeline for Potential employers keep telling me my college isn't good enough - is there any way to fix this?
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| Jul 12, 2019 at 14:28 | comment | added | user53861 | what are you applying for, and what is your degree? | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 6:57 | answer | added | Shiwangini | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | Max A. | @AffableAmbler OP is being rejected for some other reason, the companies are just being polite by using the school as an excuse | |
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| S Jul 10, 2019 at 16:10 | history | suggested | Jeffrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2019 at 11:41 | comment | added | Nzall | If you don't mind me asking, what university did you go to? It's unlikely that they're denying you because you went to Duke instead of Princeton University, but if you went to a university that's generally ranked poorly, or even a full-on diploma mill like Trump University, I can see why they are denying you. However, they should have done that during the screening process and not waited until during the interview. The only reason they would wait until the interview is if they had rules that stated they need to invite at least X people to their interview (had that happen myself in Belgium). | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 9:59 | comment | added | Cooper Buckingham | If these are technical interviews you are being given, I can almost guarantee that university doesn’t even play a role in the hiring discussion once you are in the door. Many major tech companies are even dropping degree requirements as they rarely relate to technical know how. | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 9:54 | comment | added | eckes | It’s unlikely that you want to study additional courses on another college - which would be a way to „cure“ it, but as soon as you have job experience it will be even less likely future employers care (However as others pointed out college „prestige“ alone seems to be a very unlikely rejection reason, are you sure it’s, not something else like limited private school curriculum, missing certifications or similar-see the engineering/Technician distinction sample in another comment? In that case the best thing would be to make it more transparent in the CV to avoid rejections after interviews) | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 7:51 | comment | added | Nelson | @AlexandreAubrey that's outright HR incompetence and the HR people would get into huge trouble for that. However, this is a more specific case because the issue is not the school, but the degree. They needed an accredited Engineer. Nobody would say "Oh, I need an MIT engineer, not a <another school> engineer." | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 20:18 | comment | added | Aubreal | for example, this sometimes happens for engineering jobs: "graduated electronics engineering program at XYZ" on CV, employer doesn't know XYZ but any recognized engineering program is good enough. Goes through interview process with applicant, then looks up degree to make sure all is good. Turns out the program was "Electronics Engineering Technician", i.e. not an accredited engineering program, and do not hire. Some technicians may argue that they see the same material as accredited engineering schools, but legally speaking employers need accredited engineers for certain positions. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 20:08 | comment | added | Aubreal | What is your degree in? Is your school accredited? This may be very important. Employers don't know every university in the country by name, and they might not care about the pedigree so they might invite you to an interview without recognizing the name of the institution that gave you a diploma, but then change their minds when they look it up right before making a job offer and finding out it's not accredited. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 19:57 | answer | added | Aaron | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 17:42 | answer | added | Lawnmower Man | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 17:33 | answer | added | Meg | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:50 | comment | added | David K | Very related: Is a low rank university on resume a deal breaker? | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:31 | answer | added | axus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:30 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | Please check out my answer on this other question because it can be highly beneficial: workplace.stackexchange.com/a/131397/17532. I agree with everything that @AffableAmbler commented. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:10 | comment | added | LVDV | @AffableAmbler Recruiters might not be aware of the reputation of the university. | |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 8:36 | answer | added | P. Hopkinson | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 6:45 | history | edited | Sourav Ghosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 6:43 | answer | added | Sourav Ghosh | timeline score: 141 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1148471968599072769 | ||
| Jul 9, 2019 at 3:38 | answer | added | Gregory Currie | timeline score: 51 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 3:34 | comment | added | AffableAmbler | Strange that they would go to the trouble of calling you in for an interview only to reject you for something they could’ve learned just by glancing at your resume. Is that the only reason they gave? | |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 3:26 | history | asked | NoName | CC BY-SA 4.0 |