Skills or educational qualification

[Damismiling]

In the current business world, especially in Nigeria, salaries are payed based on educational qualification and level, I once work for a boss, we had a guy so good with graphics design, but he just finished secondary school, I was shocked when is pay is lower to some one else who has little skills compared to him, but with higher qualification.

As a business owner, which should you look at before you get people to work for you
Skills or Educational qualification?

 

[Patrik]

I personally would prefer skills, The USA recently has been focusing on them as well instead of educational degress, and they are right, having a degree in something doesn't really mean you are perfect on it

 

[Doradorwa]

My philosophy is skills and education.... They both work hand n hand.... There are people that go to school in the morning and go to where to learn a skill or trade in the evening.... There are too much graduates now...Only education is seizing to be the way now.... Education,skill and creativity is what is giving people money now.... howbeit little the skill is....it's still gonna fetch you something.

 

[Hassan14]

In the current business world, especially in Nigeria, salaries are payed based on educational qualification and level, I once work for a boss, we had a guy so good with graphics design, but he just finished secondary school, I was shocked when is pay is lower to some one else who has little skills compared to him, but with higher qualification.

As a business owner, which should you look at before you get people to work for you
Skills or Educational qualification?

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Dear, I am not saying that you should not get education, you should also get education and because of which it is easy to understand skills, get education also because when you have education, it will be very easy for you to understand it and I The more I talk, the more I work on skills and get more money because of it. There is a lot of work to be done and there is a lot of money in it. So much so that I am in education. There is money to be made for such education as well as skills.

 

[Kinglegend01]

I think both are really important but if I was to choose, i would choose skills because in my country,There are too much graduates now who are unemployed, been educated alone is not actually working out now Education,skill and creativity is what is the perfect combination for a successful life right now. These days having a degree in something doesn't actually mean you are good at that thing.

 

[Trexxxy]

The imbalance of the business world . Personally I think hiring should solely be based on skills and craftsmanship, however that is not to be seeing as society has already built a standard which is solely based on one's CV, maybe one day we get to that position.

 

[Mary]

I think skill is the best you can actually use but the skilled person also need education to back it up, because there is a saying 'education is the best legacy'. If I am really attracted to the person's skill, then I'll advise him to study further

 

[Ltherman]

In the current business world, especially in Nigeria, salaries are payed based on educational qualification and level, I once work for a boss, we had a guy so good with graphics design, but he just finished secondary school, I was shocked when is pay is lower to some one else who has little skills compared to him, but with higher qualification.

As a business owner, which should you look at before you get people to work for you
Skills or Educational qualification?

Education is good in certain industry, can't be a lawyer and want to employ someone who is not educated in that field in your business or firm so to say. This requirements differs in industry to industry, sector to sector. The formal section will definitely depend on an educated workforce while the informal section will depend on mostly the skilled workforce.

 

[Highflyer]

Both are really important when considering an employee, education gives you the medium to express yourself fluently and confidently, an illiterate can't speak good English which is a compulsory requirement for most recruiting firms, so no matter how skilled he is, that will be his only shortcoming. Likewise it's good to learn a skill too, the world today revolves around your skill, learn a skill today, anything at all

 

[chicnthin]

Both are important for a person to have. However, in my opinion, education level doesn't really indicate how well the employee is gonna be. Which is why I don't agree on how the society works. Why those who didn't have a degree can't work in a companies.
If I'm to hire someone, I would prefer those who have great skills.

 

[Trojan8]

This would depend on the kind of role that needs to be covered. Some roles require more of technical skills, in those you can focus more on skills as opposed to formal education. For most administrative or management roles, you can focus more the educational side.

 

[Bilal0087]

In the current business world, especially in Nigeria, salaries are payed based on educational qualification and level, I once work for a boss, we had a guy so good with graphics design, but he just finished secondary school, I was shocked when is pay is lower to some one else who has little skills compared to him, but with higher qualification.

As a business owner, which should you look at before you get people to work for you
Skills or Educational qualification?

I think skills matters a lot and they should be preferred.
As the ultimate purpose of education is to learn skills & to make an person able to do something, so a person with better skills is more capable than an educated person without any skill.

 

[Ojonuyo]

The above mentioned are important and have their different roles to play in our life. You can not neglect one over another, to become valuable you must work to achieve the both.

Your education helped to polish and refine your skills and makes you presentable to your world.
No one would employ you even if you have the skills and can not communicate them properly.

 

[Kelvin7656]

Education and skill are two sides of the same coin. To succeed in the race of life, a person need to have a degree of Educatuin along with the skill. Education without the skill would be as empty as the skill without the Education. Both need to go hand-in-hand in order to be the survival of the fittest. Edu, is nothing but the certified documentation of the skill within the individual. Every person having the skill may not manage to attain the Edu. Similarly, every degree holder is not necessarily skilled. The requirement of the Education or skill depends upon the organisation, the nature of post etc. On a general outlook, which criteria carries more weight age – the Education or the skill?

Education

- Degree is an authenticate certificate that the person applying for the post is having the knowledge of the work requirement and has the ability to manage the functioning and justify the post.

- Degree makes a person more confident in his approach and outlook. These things are an essential part of the personality development.

- Degree can make a person more polite, humble and wiser. This could be in order to take charge of the job or to climb the success ladder. But these things are difficult to manage without a degree in hand.

- A degree earns respect and social reputation. A person is assessed through his qualifications which is reflected by his degree.

- Degree earns money and status for its master. The more specialised the degree, the higher the post and status and higher is the salary package.

Skill

- Every degree holder is not necessarily skilled. It is the skill that helps to achieve the target and not the degree.

- Skill is an abstract term which cannot be evaluated on the bits of paper. It is a broad spectrum which is groomed within the individual and nurtured through the repeated practical implications in life.

- It is not the degree but the skill that achieves success. A degree can just earn the job, but it cannot help to grow further without the skill.

- It is skill which attracts the employers, clients and management which lifts or drops the person. Without the skill, the person would not be able to catch hold the interest of their superiors and attain success.

- The great people from the history were all skilled people, but they didn’t had the certifications for their knowledge.

 

[Nurudeen]

If i happen to be an employer of labour I consider skills before qualification. If you have educational qualification without having the practical skill on what you are doing it's the company hiring the employee that will still pay for the employee to go for an upgrade.

 

[Erik4150]

If I'm a business owner I would look for skilled workers where skills are needed and I would employ educated professionals where they are needed. Skilled workers and educated professionals are very important in the labour market. One cannot exist without the other.

 

[Lyrrex]

Educational qualification is just an added bonus if you already have a skill which you've mastered, because degrees obtained from school can't guarantee one a job especially in countries with limited job opportunities.

 

[Golden_ear]

As for me both are good. During the process of learning, one should try to learn a skill to compliment the education qualification. Once you can archive that, every company you work for will pay high. Also you can work as freelance for other company and also get paid.

 

[Donkiz]

Both educational qualification and skill are very important, although our society places more emphasis on educational qualifications while relegating skills to the background, truth is that skills is what get the job done. So if I'm to employ someone, I will make skills the main criteria for recruitment while educational qualifications will be added advantage.

 

[Dylinks]

I would start by saying skills and educational qualification goes hand in hand. Before your skills can earn you a fortune there must be a level of education to attain before you can be considered except in the case of purely practical job.