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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm recently hitting a lot of dumb weedout questions focused on having a specific degree (e.g. master's of public administration or business for managing grants). It's a yes/no. I've been managing grant programs with major compliance requirements for a decade and I'm not qualified because I don't have a business degree? Seriously? [/quote]

Yes that is correct you are not qualified because that is the requirement set by the business or org.[/quote]

But as a weed out it's terrible. I'd rather have the person with the MPA and the direct experience than an MBA without the actual hands-on. This PP is smart to wiggle around that degree specificity. The hiring folks are stupid to roadblock it that way. They probably don't deserve her experience after all. Hire the MBA and they can run a theoretical framework on fro-yo franchises on software they learned senior year. [/quote]

Why not have both the degree and experience[/quote]

Because requiring an undergrad business degree (not even an MBA) is a dumb way to weed out experienced candidates for a position like grant management? Maybe you do because you want to throw out more resumes with less work, but let's not pretend it's actually helping.

Again, I work in the field, this is not a standard requirement. It's not like requiring an accounting degree to be an accountant, or a law degree to be a lawyer. [/quote]

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