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

this

increasingly competitive society, academic certification degrees are considered to be more essential than hands-on experience by some employers when they seek new candidates.

Although

there are some underlying reasons for

this

, I still believe that

this

is completely a negative movement. There are two factors to explain why some job recruiters prefer university qualifications to life experience when recruiting new employees.

Firstly

, in many professions, formal academic degrees seem to be the top priority of many employers when selecting new applicants. In order to become a doctor,

for example

, a candidate has to acquire a great deal of medical knowledge at university as well as spend plenty of time to practice and carry out experiments.

Secondly

,

this

trend might be a great way to save time for employee recruiters. Compared to formal academic candidates who are likely ready to start working, employees may have to spend months on training non-academic applicants how to work properly.

Therefore

,

this

saved months can be used in other valuable ways.

However

, I think that

this

is a negative development and both academic and non-academic job hunters should receive an equal chance in the recruitment process.

This

is because many people decide to work right after school

instead

of starting tertiary education in order to gain life skills and practical experience. On top of that, after a long time of working in a real work environment, people are

also

capable of doing most assigned tasks without a formal academic education. The typical example can be seen in the case of Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple, who was the most successful person in the technology industry without holding any formal education in

this

field. In conclusion,

this

trend is attributable to two main reasons, and I believe that

this

is a negative progress for the above-mentioned arguments.