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Originally Posted by MissMisa
You can get a degree without experience but a lot of the time you can't get experience without a qualification (not specifically a degree, but any qualification) so obviously they are always worth doing.
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What counts the most is how you "sell" yourself as a great product to the employer, here the degree is a part that counts in the final package, but same is experience.
Just as example, when I've got my interview, I had a mechanic qualification and experience, the others that were picked had University degrees and multiple paper qualifications in the domains required for the job. In my case, in my "package", experience counted as the degrees and qualifications of the others.
After a paid trial month, I was the one that remained there from the 10 selected. Guess why? That sheet of paper was nothing close to the reality of what they really knew / was able to do, even if on it, it was written they can. They "sold" a great "prospect" to the employer, but the final "product" was way under what was expected.
However, if it was the case that someone with the same skill, same experience (I mean, equal to me in every point) and, in plus, with a degree came to that interview I would have lost from the beginning. It's simple, his "package" would have been bigger and better. *
*that's the reason why I made Uni now, while already employed, to make sure that my package is as complete as it can get for "who knows what the future brings".