On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:59:02PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk
[...] so would it be sensible for me to put on any job adverts i was to write "Applicants with degrees need not apply"?
If that's really how you feel, yes. You're the one who's hiring them and who'll have to work with them.
With apologies for taking this thread further off topic, I have to contradict. As an employer, you cannot discriminate against applicants because "that's how you really feel".
The responsibility of an employer is to create and maintain a working environment that enables the employees to produce / deliver the product or service of the business. If that objective is furthered by hiring someone with a degree / MCSE / ugly face / ..., that's what you should do.
Despotism is not only bad for business (supposedly, anyway), it's also morally more than questionable.
Best regards, Jan