Where did your most impressive young colleague (graduated within the past 10 yrs) go to college?

[Anonymous]

Davidson, USC and Pitzer

[Anonymous]

Yale

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

Seen the resume. Know the person outside of work. Have worked with them for a long time and it came up once. Lots of ways to find this out.

Coffee mug, sweatshirt, pen, etc. with the name of the school on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that 20 years ago mainly hired only Ivy and near Ivys. The most impressive person on my team didn’t even go to college. She was hired as a temp when she moved to a city seeking adventure because her family was too poor to send her to college. Her supervisor saw talent and hired her permanently and she was on a steep promotion trajectory. I recruited her (internally) to my team and didn’t even know she didn’t go to college until she had been on my team for almost a year. She’s now a Director. She’s got amazing initiative and willingness to just take responsibility for whatever we throw her way.

Have you offered to pay for her to work on her degree as a nice benefit?

Why would you assume that a person who is doing great professionally would care about working on a degree? Maybe she just wants to keep doing great professionally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

I do hiring, so I see resumes.

At our office, it was UNC Chapel Hill (out of state, Morehead-Cain Scholar)

[Anonymous]

U Chicago
Private equities

[Anonymous]

Mary Washington.

[Anonymous]

George Mason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan BBA
Harvard MBA

Isn’t this redundant? Reeks of insecure striver desperate to put Ivy prestige on their resume.

[Anonymous]

VT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan BBA
Harvard MBA

Isn’t this redundant? Reeks of insecure striver desperate to put Ivy prestige on their resume.

A BBA is a bachelor's degree. The MBA is the professional degree you get after a bachelor's and some work experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that 20 years ago mainly hired only Ivy and near Ivys. The most impressive person on my team didn’t even go to college. She was hired as a temp when she moved to a city seeking adventure because her family was too poor to send her to college. Her supervisor saw talent and hired her permanently and she was on a steep promotion trajectory. I recruited her (internally) to my team and didn’t even know she didn’t go to college until she had been on my team for almost a year. She’s now a Director. She’s got amazing initiative and willingness to just take responsibility for whatever we throw her way.

And THIS is what used to happen in industries all over the US. It is a very rare field that will promote someone to higher-level positions without a degree.

[Anonymous]

UC Berkeley on a merit scholarship

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that 20 years ago mainly hired only Ivy and near Ivys. The most impressive person on my team didn’t even go to college. She was hired as a temp when she moved to a city seeking adventure because her family was too poor to send her to college. Her supervisor saw talent and hired her permanently and she was on a steep promotion trajectory. I recruited her (internally) to my team and didn’t even know she didn’t go to college until she had been on my team for almost a year. She’s now a Director. She’s got amazing initiative and willingness to just take responsibility for whatever we throw her way.

And THIS is what used to happen in industries all over the US. It is a very rare field that will promote someone to higher-level positions without a degree.

I feel like in so many companies you can't even get in the door without a degree now. Even temp agencies often require a degree of some sort (at least a two year degree) now.