Some employers think that formal academic qualifications are more important than life experiences and personal qualities when they look for an employee. Why is it the case? Is it a positive or negative development?

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Some recruiters give more value to a college or university
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than personal attributes and experiences.
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phenomenon. In my
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opinion, it
is a negative development. It is easy to see why some employers give more stress on a
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than experiences. Undoubtedly, academic qualifications are important because just as clothing is to
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impressions, so is a university
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to a
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job
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or a
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with a good pay. A
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simply proves that an individual has acquired the necessary academic knowledge of how to carry out a
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. Having a
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most definitely helps the recruiters in hiring suitable candidates.
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, ignoring a person's
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experience
and skills is not good. Personal skills and life experiences are
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as important as good qualifications while recruiting new employees. There are many
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personality
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as creativity, adaptability, honesty, integrity, and effort, which are
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important. A university
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does not signal whether a person has those traits. A
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does not indicate in any way, how a person will function in the real world. Hands- on skills and
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practical
experience are more important in the present scenario.
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why it is a negative development if employers do not put emphasis on personal traits.
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, it has been seen that when recruitment focused largely on candidate's technical skills and expertise, with relatively little attention given to soft skills,
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it resulted in hiring employees who had the intellect to succeed but lacked the social skills required to work effectively.
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resulted in interpersonal conflict and frustration and sometimes
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employees had to leave the
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. What is more,
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employees were unable to handle the social demand of leadership and so had to remain at lower level jobs. In summary, it is understandable why employers give importance to qualifications. I consider it negative because I believe that personal skills and experience are as important as qualifications.

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