How to seek academic validation after graduation?
A question for the academic nerds out there
22-25, M
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Do hand to hand combat in a secretbbasent to the death against other applicants for whatever job you're looking to land that required your specific skill sets from graduating. They all have the same paper so remember competition will be fierce!
Playing dirty might leave you as last applicant standing 🙏🏼
Playing dirty might leave you as last applicant standing 🙏🏼
twistedrope · 26-30, M
Get a job in your field or even outside your field but adjacent to it. Record the type of work you do, it's effects on others and different measures of what you believe to be success.
Read up on how the job function your working operates, others opinions on success indicators and get feedback from your boss.
This is the basis of a thesis and the beginning of a work/study project you can use for postgrad. When you see the results of your study in action, that is validation. When you see where what you learned fails, look up why it does and validate your experience to verify where failure in the business exists.
It's what I do when I have the mental energy. Work takes up lots of mental energy so if you don't have any, don't worry about it. See a work councilor and try find how to get time to yourself back :) That's why I never work unpaid overtime.
Read up on how the job function your working operates, others opinions on success indicators and get feedback from your boss.
This is the basis of a thesis and the beginning of a work/study project you can use for postgrad. When you see the results of your study in action, that is validation. When you see where what you learned fails, look up why it does and validate your experience to verify where failure in the business exists.
It's what I do when I have the mental energy. Work takes up lots of mental energy so if you don't have any, don't worry about it. See a work councilor and try find how to get time to yourself back :) That's why I never work unpaid overtime.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
On a level playing field, there is no such thing as "academic validation after graduation" if all graduates walk out of university with the same Degree in their hand.
The whole point of going to university years ago, was to elevate oneself above the crowd who typically carried no more than a high school graduation diploma in their hand at the time. But today, a university education is irrelevant if everyone has earned the same academic credential as each other, yet none of those graduates have any practical experience in the labor market because they've spent all their time in school reading about it, but learning nothing specific as it pertains to industry. Always remember that a university Degree doesn't train you to do anything, but it does validate your ability to learn.
What results from equalized credentials in the labor market is what's known as "a race to the bottom". That means that an equalized academic credential base leaves none of the candidates with any leverage over the other candidates except their individual willingness to do the job for less money than what the company was willing to pay in the first place.
Whoever will do the job for the least amount of money is NOW who gets hired for the job, which means academic validation doesn't exist in the real world.
The whole point of going to university years ago, was to elevate oneself above the crowd who typically carried no more than a high school graduation diploma in their hand at the time. But today, a university education is irrelevant if everyone has earned the same academic credential as each other, yet none of those graduates have any practical experience in the labor market because they've spent all their time in school reading about it, but learning nothing specific as it pertains to industry. Always remember that a university Degree doesn't train you to do anything, but it does validate your ability to learn.
What results from equalized credentials in the labor market is what's known as "a race to the bottom". That means that an equalized academic credential base leaves none of the candidates with any leverage over the other candidates except their individual willingness to do the job for less money than what the company was willing to pay in the first place.
Whoever will do the job for the least amount of money is NOW who gets hired for the job, which means academic validation doesn't exist in the real world.
