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

✨ Do you want to improve your IELTS writing?
These days, people who have graduated from prestigious universities with high academic degrees are more preferable by recruiters seeking for new novices. In my opinion,
this
Linking Words
has both positive and negative impacts on society. On the one hand, formal qualifications are the obvious evidence to assert themselves to recruiters.
First
Linking Words
of all, in many professions –
For instance
Linking Words
, a teacher teaching a foreign language, he or she must primarily qualify for the job by achieving feats
such
Linking Words
as passing IELTS exams with flying colours or other certificates relevant to their field.
Secondly
Linking Words
, in jurisprudence, to become an attorney or a judge, students must acquire some compulsory certificates before applying for any relative position. All of
this
Linking Words
means that in an academic or a philosophical environment,
in particular
Linking Words
, a large scope of theoretical knowledge with formal academic qualifications is more predominant compared to hands-on experience.
On the other hand
Linking Words
, some careers have a priority for practical skills. Set bartender as an example, a bartender only needs the skill of mixing drinks for customers while other university degrees are not compelled.
Moreover
Linking Words
, if applying for the bartender position with years of experience, the applicants will have a very attractive salary.
In addition
Linking Words
, manual workers, particularly, in Vietnam, they do not need to acquire many qualifications which are implicitly superfluous, their experience is more of an importance to the recruiters. But in order to get promoted to a higher position, people with formal qualifications are more likely to be taken into consideration. In conclusion, people acquiring formal qualifications might not be the most ultimate option for the recruiters. But so as to broaden career prospects and get a better wage, formal qualifications are needed.
Submitted by Robert Belschmist on

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Your opinion

Don’t put your opinion unless you are asked to give it.

If the question asks what you think, you MUST give your opinion to get a good score.

Don’t leave your opinion until the conclusion.

Here are examples of instructions that require you to give your opinion:

...do you agree or disagree?...do you think...?...your opinion...?

Discover more tips in The Ultimate Guide to Get a Target Band Score of 7+ »— a book that's free for 🚀 Premium users.

What to do next:
Look at other essays: