We Asked 3 Graduates Whether They Actually Used Their Degree Or If It Was As Useful As Algebra

We’ve all heard that Ps get degrees, but do degrees get jobs? Are qualifications really worth years of your time (not to mention thousands in HECS debt)? With that in mind, we asked three young Australians each with their “dream job” whether they reckon their time studying got them where they wanted to go, based on LinkedIn’s new Career Pathways Report which suggests that employers would be smarter to hire based off at skills, rather than experience. You can find the insights here, but they estimate that a skills-first hiring approach in Australia would increase the talent pool dramatically in most industries — and would see, across the board, there is a 32% increase in talent pools for women compared to men. It also really helps out younger workers too, who are being otherwise held back by a lack of ‘experience’, only making a difficult workforce to enter even harder to break into.

Gen Z – a generation that is starting their careers in a tough economic climate – will stand to benefit the most from skills-based hiring. LinkedIn’s insights show that the overall talent pool of Gen Z increases by 10.8x in Australia.