Nowadays, some employers think that formal academic qualifications are more important than life experience or personal qualities when they look for new employees. Why is it the case? Is it a positive or negative development?

In the fierce competition for employment these days, recruiters now have a liking to consider job seekers with

academic qualification

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an academic qualification

academic qualifications

than those who have rich life experience and virtues as their main advantages. In my opinion,

this

idea mostly

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idea, mostly

stems from

employers’ common stereotype

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employers’ common stereotypes

the employers’ common stereotype

about the value of qualifications and

this

could have

unfavorable

not encouraging or approving or pleasing

unfavourable

implications

to

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for

of

a

company

. There are three main reasons that comprise the stereotype behind the tendency.

First

of all, employers usually hold a belief that applicants with good academic background and qualified degrees would have in-depth knowledge as well as useful skills in their field.

This

idea can be observed in many countries

such

as

Japan where

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Japan, where

only people coming from prestigious universities can make their way to top enterprises.

Secondly

, candidates with

good

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the best

better

qualifications are usually thought to be ambitious people who are capable of bringing radical changes to the

company

and help the business flourish. What is more, the recruiters are always apt to the hunt of human capital with formal academic background simply because it can help save a fortune of retraining if they choose people with lower qualifications. As far as I am concerned,

this

trend could lead to serious setbacks to the development of any

company

. For one thing, those underestimated life experiences could in fact provide people with new insights or new perspectives that assist them in tackling problems which can’t be solved in conventional approaches. Another important point is that hiring people with good personal qualities offers mangers golden opportunity to create a friendly working environment with highly responsible team players.

In addition

, these types of candidates could help to establish a healthy business ethics of a

company

for which they are less likely to cause fraudulent acts or disruptive

behaviors

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

behaviours

. In sum, the idea to hire people with formal qualifications and yet depreciate the value of rich life experiences and personal virtues mainly comes from recruiters’ unfair beliefs and should be seriously reconsidered. People with possession of both would be the most suitable to be hired.