OzKo
Retired
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2007
- Messages
- 9,892
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2009
- Uni Grad
- 2013
A lot of you newbies need to learn that the choice you make at 18, and how you did in the HSC is not a reflection of employable you are after you graduate. I know people who did better than me in the HSC, and then they slid backwards. Other people have excelled after graduating from high school and entering university. The university you go to does not provide employers with an indication of how value has been added to your education and communication skills. This is not how employment works and if this practice was actually practiced by HR, I assure you their employees would be absolute dross. Azure, gsweeper, enoilgam, izzy88 among others have the right idea about how the real world works. Unlike the lot of you high school kids who haven't gone to university, we have an understanding of how life after graduation works unlike the lot of you who seem to operate on hearsay.Can I just say I often lurk these forums more than I post and if you get advice from Azure on here, you won't get any better from anyone else. What he said here is 100% true, Macquarie being viewed as a "b grade" university comes from exactly that, HSC students who think USYD and UNSW are the holy grail's of universities despite never attending a university. Every university has it's pro's and con's but they change for every individual and what they wish to take out of their university experience.
As for career development, if you are good enough for the job you will get it, employees look so far beyond a sheet of paper. A university does can not teach you drive or determination, nor can it teach you people skills or help you develop initiative and aspiration. Do you know who teaches you that? Yourself! So if you hold these qualities for success, that will give you your competitive advantage. Sure a degree from Usyd looks nice and neat, but unless you can exhibit that attributes that will allow you to succeed, that piece of paper will mean nothing, and neither will the institute from where you obtained it.
I don't want to come across as aggressive, but the sheer volume of misconceptions about how important going to University X is in regards to your future is really starting to annoy me now.