10 Good-For-Nothing Graduate Degrees
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siliconindia | Monday, 02 March 2015, 19:13 IST
Computer and Information Systems
Companies specializing in information technology suggest that graduate education doesn’t rank high on their list for new hires. The jobs in information technology demand specific skill set and knowledge of latest technologies used by the companies. Skills in addition to the college degree are required in this field.
An experienced degree holder in this stream earns around $92,000 annually on an average and 5 percent of the experienced degree holding grads face unemployment.
Marketing and Market Research
Students in this field don’t get much to learn in their course of studies. It is more of an on-field job where one acquires an experience and knowledge once they start working. This degree is not even one of the highest paying in the job market. The abundance of the number of students passing out every year has made the competition for job even tougher with 5.1 percent experienced degree graduates being unemployed.
Professionals with this degree earn on an average $ 94,000 per year.
Human Resources and Personnel Development
This degree bags you a job but the scope of promotion and growth in this field is quite less. The professionals in this field are neither leaders nor strategists. The responsibilities involve only facilitating in the recruitment process, retention of talent.
Experienced degree holders earn upto $74,000 every year on an average while 6.8 percent graduates are unemployed.
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