Nowadays, some employers thought formal academic qualification are more important than life experience and personal qualities when they look for new employees.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Academic

credentials

are considered relatively important compared to

life

experience and personality traits by human resource managers

while

hiring people

currently

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.

Although

educational background can represent a person’s ability to some extent, I do not agree that its significance utterly outweighs the other counterparts. Admittedly, taking academic background as a priority in

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procedures exerts certain virtues. First of all, school

credentials

can be seen as a summarization of people’s skills. The capability of problem dealing

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schoolwork is directly reflected in school transcripts and

credentials

, which are essential factors for an employee. Another merit of giving weight to academic qualifications is that it speeds the process of seeking new hirelings. Employers can regard school

credentials

as pre-sifters of interviewees.

For instance

, people with better education backgrounds are usually relatively competitive among their peers.

However

, personalities and

life

experiences are vital for new hires as well. To be specific, well performance in the curriculum cannot stand for a person’s capacity entirely. Some indispensable skills for work,

such

as creativity and flexibility, are not scored in schools.

Therefore

it is essential to take not only academic qualifications but

also

personality traits into account

while

interviewing.

Second,

schools are not the only method to study. Most of the competence required for a job can be learnt from experiences.

For example

, social and communication skills can be trained and

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through experiencing ups and downs in

life

. In conclusion, though it is understandable that academic qualifications are sometimes regarded as the crucial factor when recruiting, I believe that it is not the only circumstance to define whether a person is suitable for a job,

conversely

, both

life

experiences and personal traits might

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more consideration.