What would you consider a "Useless" University/College Degree and why?

@SW-User Interesting. I wish most company recruiters were as open minded as you are.

@ChimerIX recruiters are morons. They put all of their biases into the filtering process and you lose great candidates.

I would rather sift through 10’s - hundreds of resumes than let those idiots filter through them.

@SW-User That's rad, man. I'm sure your subordinates really appreciate you. I'm usually just fucking around on here but in this job market, it's good to know there are still people that actually give a damn about character rather than how much money or time someone had to dedicate to school, which isn't a bad thing either.

@ChimerIX top factors to me on a resume are:

Don’t lie on your resume. If you say you can do C#, I better see it in one of your jobs (i don’t want to find out you learned it online)

Show progression in your jobs

Make me understand what you do every day but give me a summary of all the skills you used at that job.

My interview weakness: I fall for people who use the word “team” a lot but can still describe how and what they contribute.

@SW-User Hm, that is fair. My biggest takeaway from this though; be honest about your skill set and use the word team a lot? But in all seriousness, team players are important no matter where you work huh?

@ChimerIX but people get the notion that interviewers want to know all the great things about you.

We don’t. We want to know how you’ll fit in our team. Talking like you like your team and you’re a good fit in the one you’re already in... makes me feel like I can just plug you into mine.

@SW-User So you're interested to hear about how they can carry their own weight and fit in? Like for example if someone's not a leader, you'd rather them say they are excellent at ironing out the small details but need the team's help for the bigger picture? Is that kind of what you're getting at? Instead of someone pretending to be a one size fits all kind of player.

@ChimerIX well... now you’re getting to the specifics of each job. :-)

I don’t want someone who comes in and can’t interact with others. In the early years... we would pick the most skilled worker. The chances of them putting together a good product with the team was less than hiring a slightly less skilled, more personable person.

@SW-User Really now? Mind if I ask how that is? Even if people are having to pull a little bit of their extra weight? :o

@SW-User When my youngest son applied for his first full time job, it was in IT. He said that the interview went for about half an hour and they talked about cars, music, people they knew, pretty much everything other than the job. He finally asked the interviewer why and was told that he could be taught to do the job, but they had to know that he would fit into the team. To my mind, a very progressive company, even though it was very small at the time.