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Everyone wins except the students, the employers or the country.
If it's just a checkbox, "yes, has a degree", to get you to the next round of the interview, and it really doesn't mean anything for your field, then do it.
Eventually, if you need the knowledge taught, and you don't have it, you'll be discovered and fired. This is true whether you have the piece of paper, or not.
As someone with severe ADHD. This is the only way I could deal with college. And even this might not work.
I dont know how I feel about this.
On one hand, degrees are somewhat good for education in lots of industries.
On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.
Degrees are also very expensive.
I guess if it was a useless degree then it wouldn't matter in the first place.
On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.
But all you're doing in that case is making them attend a community college with a bunch of wacky misfits for a few years.
On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.
Ideally, I wouldn't hire them. But if they were already on the payroll, I'm much more interested in their work output than their transcript.
This is just the industrialization of "Fake It Until You Make It".
I value honesty more than most people I'm realizing. If a hire is open about their credentials I would not care.
I've witnessed what happens when people are ok with liars. It's gross, and no one should normalize it.
why would you fire them for this? that seems absurd. I make pretty good money and I don't have a degree at all
Thats because you have the sellable skills, which is the most important thing. Degree is helpful in some areas, essential in others and has no use everywhere else (outside of proving that a person is capable of learning and persevering).
Cheating is not a sellable skill, and a huge red flag.
How is it cheating? Who is being cheated? Out of what?
Reading the article, it sounds like these students still need to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the material.
Honesty is my problem with it. If they were open about it I wouldn't care. But if they hid it and were hired because of the degree I'd fire them almost regardless of their work.
It's something I value because dishonest people are usually quite horrible in my life experience.
My assumption is that they would tell you where it's from, because normally the school's name is attached to the degree, right? it wouldn't be their fault if you didn't catch it
