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LegacyUser

So i was just recently looking through what available jobs are out there at the moment as i have just returned from traveling and need to find a new job. I completed an honors degree in microbiology last year and I cannot begin to stress the amount of times people said to us that if we had left with our general degree after 3 years it would be very hard for us to get a good job and bla bla bla.Basically how important it is to get an honors degree in this day in age.

As far as i can see for the majority of jobs you need your BSc hons and experience but no one wants to give you experience!!! This is the latest that i came across thought.

I have just pasted the part of the application which caught my eye, (roles and responsibilities not important)

***Please be aware that if you hold a degree you will be automatically discounted for this position as my client will not consider degree holders under any circumstances***

Does anybody not think that is the most ridiculous thing ever!!!!

Miss Fluff

You'd probably get more advice over here OP

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=10

I'm surprised some employers haven't bitten your hand off with the degree you have. Have you tried the likes of Abbott Ireland and Icon Clinical Research etc?

Burial

turtle27 wrote: »

So i was just recently looking through what available jobs are out there at the moment as i have just returned from traveling and need to find a new job. I completed an honors degree in microbiology last year and I cannot begin to stress the amount of times people said to us that if we had left with our general degree after 3 years it would be very hard for us to get a good job and bla bla bla.Basically how important it is to get an honors degree in this day in age.

As far as i can see for the majority of jobs you need your BSc hons and experience but no one wants to give you experience!!! This is the latest that i came across thought.

I have just pasted the part of the application which caught my eye, (roles and responsibilities not important)

***Please be aware that if you hold a degree you will be automatically discounted for this position as my client will not consider degree holders under any circumstances***

Does anybody not think that is the most ridiculous thing ever!!!!

The reason for the no degree holders, is that the company thinks the work is too easy for degree holders, so in 2-3 years time, you'll leave and thats not what they want. There's BOUND to be some jobs that need your degree, I mean it's not a Business degree...

Join some recruitment websites/companies or consult those websites missFluff mentioned and let them spread your cv around. The experience thing is annoying. It's a common problem in todays world...

Overheal

the trick behind hiring unqualified workers is they get to pay them less, also. As a degree holder youre effectively entitled to demand a better wage.