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How strict do you feel hiring managers are on work experience when posting for jobs??..
Example: saw a job that my husband qualifies for on every single mark other than being off on work experience by 1 year.. the job required a Bachelors however he's currently working on MBA.. do you think hiring managers give leeway in years experience (1 year or less) if education is more than they're asking for and such? I've seen them post sometimes they take an MBA over the years experience requirement. This posting does not have that.
I've read articles that say just go for it cause you never know but we've not had real world experience in this being his last job he was in for 15 years.Opinions?
Have him apply. That 1 year won't matter if his overall resume is strong.
I think so too. We've had his resume professional written up by a former 15 year recruiter. Its fairly strong we think. Plus 15 years at one job looks pretty good too. He's in it for the long haul lol
I wouldn't think it would be an issue. A good thing would be progressively responsible experience. You don't want to be seen in a low level job for a decade.
It sounds like he has a combination of education and experience, so I would apply. No one can tell you for sure what the hiring manager will do. It is certainly worth a shot.
Example: saw a job that my husband qualifies for on every single mark other than being off on work experience by 1 year.. the job required a Bachelors however he's currently working on MBA.. do you think hiring managers give leeway in years experience (1 year or less) if education is more than they're asking for and such? I've seen them post sometimes they take an MBA over the years experience requirement. This posting does not have that.
depends on the job, and more so on why you want him to work.
Do you want him to work because you guys need money? Or do you want him to work to gain experience that he can get in conjunction with the MBA?
If it is just a job for money, he has enough experience for it based on what other bachelors people have, namely very little. I'll assume he has more experience than the bare minimum or else they wouldn't have let him into the MBA program.
But if it is a job that he wants to do that goes with the MBA, he is probably under qualified for it based on him lacking the administration/management experience (the entire reason he wants the MBA). For jobs of this level, having a basic bachelors wouldn't have qualified them either way.
back to why you want him to work, if not for money, he can put his efforts into making his MBA experience better for when he gets it. If you guys need money, then its a different matter because a MBA doesn't put food on the table by itself.
Though, why not have the MBA program introduce him to their business partners to get an entry MBA level job? At least in the colleges here, the MBA program sends their students to be lower level administrators at large companies/hotel chains so they gain experience and are being evaluated at the same time so they can have a job at the end of it. <-- consider it a MBA "clinical" portion of the program, probably a better term for it, but meh, I didn't go through it so it's based on what I heard from what they do.
depends on the job, and more so on why you want him to work.
Do you want him to work because you guys need money? Or do you want him to work to gain experience that he can get in conjunction with the MBA?
If it is just a job for money, he has enough experience for it based on what other bachelors people have, namely very little. I'll assume he has more experience than the bare minimum or else they wouldn't have let him into the MBA program.
But if it is a job that he wants to do that goes with the MBA, he is probably under qualified for it based on him lacking the administration/management experience (the entire reason he wants the MBA). For jobs of this level, having a basic bachelors wouldn't have qualified them either way.
back to why you want him to work, if not for money, he can put his efforts into making his MBA experience better for when he gets it. If you guys need money, then its a different matter because a MBA doesn't put food on the table by itself.
Though, why not have the MBA program introduce him to their business partners to get an entry MBA level job? At least in the colleges here, the MBA program sends their students to be lower level administrators at large companies/hotel chains so they gain experience and are being evaluated at the same time so they can have a job at the end of it. <-- consider it a MBA "clinical" portion of the program, probably a better term for it, but meh, I didn't go through it so it's based on what I heard from what they do.
It’s not for money he’s fine on that front. We are looking at relocation because his grandmother is dying of brain cancer. We want our daughter to know her before she goes but also to help the family. It’s a lot of work. I worry any job placement his college can provide will not provide the income we make (6 figures) and we’d be moving to a more expensive city. That leaves us looking on our own.
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Every company has their own policies, some are more lenient than others. For me as a hiring manager that part is taken out of my hands. When I select the applicants to be interviewed, HR verifies that the person meets every requirement, and if they don't, I cannot interview them.
Example: saw a job that my husband qualifies for on every single mark other than being off on work experience by 1 year.. the job required a Bachelors however he's currently working on MBA.. do you think hiring managers give leeway in years experience (1 year or less) if education is more than they're asking for and such? I've seen them post sometimes they take an MBA over the years experience requirement. This posting does not have that.
I've read articles that say just go for it cause you never know but we've not had real world experience in this being his last job he was in for 15 years.Opinions?
Education almost always counts towards experience one way or another.
Any sane employer knows they aren't going to get a 100% match. I used to try to be very careful about requirements vs. desired qualifications... if i had more than maybe three hard-and-fast requirements, I started to ask myself what I was doing.
But if someone is going to be cranial-rectal inverted, and insist on 100% match with every little thing he thinks he wants, you want them to toss your resume, because that's someone who's going to be an enormous PITA to work with.
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