The education part of my resume has great brand names and lots of impressive Greek and Latin phrases, and there is some ballpark-of-a-Rhodes stuff as well. Did that help me when I changed jobs after 20 years with the same firm, and again three years later? Of course it did! Did it help me a huge amount? Of course not! Among my partners are some whose educational background looks like mine and some whose educational background doesn’t look like mine, and it makes absolutely no difference.
Mainly in engineering, but Elon Musk still insists on seeing the college transcripts of all the new hires in his companies. It matters less if you have an interesting work history, but it never becomes optional.
Our old next door neighbor was a member of the high school board and used to publicly complain about how the new teacher hires had gone to (in his mind) less than stellar schools. (His daughter, the nicest girl imaginable, had gotten full scholarships to Harvard undergrad and Stanford grad.) To this day, when DH and I see top rated schools in someone’s background, like when we’re looking for new doctors for example, we’ll say “Mr. Neighbor would approve.”
I was on a program where there was a bunch of senior managers from Cornell. We ended up with a lot of hires from Cornell. Go figure.
If anyone is hired now, as long as the relevant college degree box is checked, no one really cares. (Although if one is a Coug going into a group of mostly Huskies, November can be a tough month.)
“Although if one is a Coug going into a group of mostly Huskies, November can be a tough month.”
Lol. So true.