data-medics wrote:I think Dubai is mostly all run by big corporations. So 300 large companies may account for a large share of the business market there.
What I find strange is that they want a college degree.... what amount of knowledge can you gain in college that's of any relevance to data recovery??? I've never gone to college, but I have recovered data for several of them. If they could teach data recovery, they wouldn't need me.
I'm just saying.
That Old chestnut!
A Degree has been argued to show a candidate can set their mind to a task and finish it. Completing a degree isn't all that easy for I would say 70% of people. While most Degrees in Tech are SERIOUSLY out of date, they do add a lot of benefit - Report writing, research, a level of professionalism, also a lot of background.. ah.. knowledge, better word needed...
During a degree you are exposed to a lot that you wouldn't be if you just taught yourself the same skillset need for the job. The ideal position to be in IMHO is what everyone seems to expect of someone that doesn't do a degree, passionate, obsessed with really getting into their stuff, I guess Spildt, or others we see on this forum may be examples.. all this AND a degree.
A degree can also steer you AWAY from your initial choice of work/hobby.. such as a Software Engineering dgree did with me.. no way I wanted to sit and write code all day, much more interested in pushing things way past that.
this is a Pepsi/Coke, Holdens/Ford, Soccer football/real football type of argument.. (calm down Soccer fans!!)
While University wildly underwhelmed me.. the actual candidate has MASSIVE access to resourcs and people if they choose to go get it.
There, that's my take on it
PS, you have to remember corporate decisions can come from many places, and sometimes a decision, however unagreeable, comes from above and that's that. they stipulate, we do. Period..