Reply #144: Experience from the 70s doesn't mean anything

[cgrindley]

I don't think that boomers fully understand how much the world has changed at their hands. boomers are responsible for experience no longer counting for anything.

Today, the truth of whether or not experience can overcome educational deficiences doesn't matter. Maybe it can. I have a friend, for example, who has risen to the VP level of a fortune 500 company without a college education--but it was random, an accident, a twist of fate... I have other friends who have managed to eduate themselves on theories they didn't know... but it doesn't matter. Not any more. Those people won't even be able to fill out the electronic application. In a stack of 500 applications for one job, their application will be automatically deleted, unread.

the world has changed. applicants need a raft of university degrees, enough to wallpaper an office. it's just the way it is. you boomers did this to everyone, you know. it's not Gen X's fault.