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Few graduates have any skills at all, outside homework and testtaking. True all over the world.

Skills are acquired during the 1st year at the job. The credential still is meaningful - how much spadework is there to training an educated subject vs one with no vocabulary, no facility with theory, no proven ability to learn?

So yes, hire a successful college grad over, say, a tongue-tied inexperienced person without a degree.



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