What provides more opportunities, experience or education?

As non-traditional development methods, like apprenticeships and work experience, become more popular, we’re exploring recruitment processes. Do employers prefer you to have more experience or more education? If there were two perfect candidates, which would be the deciding factor and why?

Joined by Rhys Drury, Head of Computing at Wyke Sixth Form College, this episode has viewpoints from both employers and teachers that specialise in getting their students ready for future work.

We’ll be considering the benefits and negatives to each developmental route, focusing on the IT industry and whether the complex problem-solving and practical knowledge needed for these roles is best taught in classrooms or on-the-job.

Join us as we chat about the benefits and negatives of different styles of education.

• A study by Harvard Business Review found that only 29% of IT roles posted by IBM require a degree
• Only 47% of university graduates work in a field relating to their degree
• Harvard Business School’s study found that 37% of employers rank experience as the most important qualification in an applicant, not educational attainment

Join us as we chat about the benefits and negatives of different styles of education.