One of the biggest concerns that people
have about online colleges is how potential employers are going to
view their degree. This makes perfect sense of course since the
reason that most people go to the trouble of getting a degree is to
get a better job. The question is should you be concerned about what
employers think of online degrees.
If you go to any distance learning
forum one of the most common questions is whether the degree says
that it was earned online, this seems to be mainly because they don't
want potential employers to know that it is an online degree. In
reality this is not that big of a deal as few employers will ever ask
to see the degree anyway.
In general employers are not going to
know one way or the other how you got your degree, in most cases they
simply aren't interested enough to bother looking into. Therefore
unless you tell them that you got an online degree it not likely to
be a factor. There are of course exceptions to this, you will find it
very difficult to get an academic position with an online degree and
jobs like an investment banker pretty much require an Ivy League
degree.
Even if you do tell a potential
employer that you got your degree online it is not likely to matter
too much in the hiring process. There is much more acceptance for
online degrees than there was a few years ago. More importantly in
most cases employers place far less weight on academic qualifications
than most people think they do. As long as you meet the minimum
qualifications you should be fine regardless of where the degree came
from for most jobs. This is particularly true if you have a fair
amount of work experience.
The best advice is to not worry too
much about whether an employer finds out that you got an online
degree, most of them don't care either way. You will find that your
work experience is far more valuable and one of the benefits of an
online education is that you can get this work experience while you
are studying which should put you ahead of the game.
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