(If you were an employer and saw this on a resume) What do you think?

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This isnt political, no spin.

I know someone that is going to go through this University for the graduate degree of "Strategic Intelligence" I believe. Its acredited and all. But the degree paths are really practical for someone in the DoD world, in all honesty.

But my question is this...would you take this seriously? How much influence does the school's name place on the candidate? I dont really know shit about this place.

Here is the school: http://www.amu.apus.edu/index.htm

― Spink, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

that's not a school, it's a website.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

There is one opinion. That was pretty much my first impression too...

― Spink, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Depending on the job & level, of course.. experience and attitude are much more important than school name. Degree? [Yes/No] is just a screen. Even if it's a school no one ever heard of. I've never known a colleague to really care past "Oh, hey - you went to State? Did you know .. "

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Accounting
Business Administration
Communications
Computer Science
CounterTerrorism Fundamentals
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Fire Science
Government
Hazard Waste Management
Health Services Administration
History
Hospitality Restaurant Operations
Infant & Toddler Care
Law Enforcement
Military Leadership Studies
Military Studies
No Concentration
Paralegal Studies
Personnel Administration
Real Estate Management
Social Issues
Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Infant & Toddler Care

When you make a thousand orphans you have to take a share of the babysitting.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Read the first line of the thread.

― Spink, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

No Concentration

I'd do VERY well in that course.

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

me too. i'd have my PHD in it by now.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

good question. I know someone who just got their MBA through the University of Phoenix. When he told me he was doing this I scoffed internally, "no-one takes that shit seriously!" but he did have to do a significant amount of work to get it, he already had a good paying marketing job to begin with with a lot of experience, and he isn't stupid, so maybe people don't care so much in the real world. fuck I don't even have my bachelors and I do fine so what the hell.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Name recognition can be a benefit, but it's rarely a detractor. Of course the quality of the education is useful in that it may help you answer interview questions better or actually do a better job & rise faster once hired.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

"Fire Science"

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness

...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like the best school in the universe.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Spink you know as well as I do that DoD and Fed Agencies don't give a flying fuck where you got your degree or if you're a bright blue lobotomized mushroom from the dumb galaxy, as long as you know how to direct the trickles of shit in the right directions and don't sodomize things in your off time.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

whoa, tom. youre talking inSANE today!

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

tombot OTM

If you need a certain degree to get up to a GS something than you need a certain degree. nobody cares where.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

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