Discrimination against academic qualifications is very harmful and more insulting.
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Have you experienced academic discrimination?
Recently, a chat record of job hunting on an online recruitment platform was circulated on the Internet. A job seeker wanted to post a product operation position for a big data company in Hangzhou. He added, “Those who fail to pass the undergraduate entrance exam are those with IQ problems.”
This topic has sparked a lively discussion about academic discrimination. In fact, degree discrimination is very common in corporate recruitment, and many companies will use the “undergraduate degree” as a rigid threshold when recruiting. As a result, those junior college graduates who are only one step away from their undergraduate qualifications and are not able to get undergraduates are cruelly turned away again and again when looking for a job, and they also suffer from indifference and discrimination from companies.
Not only that, some people who have obtained undergraduate diplomas through “college upgrade” will also be treated differently because they are not full-time undergraduates; even undergraduates will be divided into “three, six, nine” according to different institutions, and some The graduates of Sanben felt that they were “at the bottom of the chain of contempt” and were taught by the interviewer that “you are the only person on the scene and not a master.”
Because of insufficient academic qualifications, you may be doing the remaining jobs that others choose; you may feel inferior and lack the courage to change jobs; you may need to put in the efforts of others several times to get the same treatment as others. But in the eyes of business owners, they may think this is reality, but it’s just a bit cruel.
Shen Ran chatted with 8 workplace workers and business owners. Here is their story.
I used to do business in Zhongguancun like Liu Qiangdong
But academic qualifications limit my imagination
Zhiyuan| 34-year-old junior college, adult self-study undergraduate course
Practitioners in the film and television industry
My college entrance examination scores that year passed the supplementary record and I was able to get a second book. I didn’t know what to do at the time. I was too stupid and too young. I feel that going to a bad second book is not as good as the last one. . A wrong decision made me regret for life.
In our industry, academic qualifications are not really important, but many companies have requirements for the undergraduate rate of their employees, and they are all stuck on this. Some companies may not be able to do so, and they must have enough academic qualifications.
I have been working in theaters for more than 5 years, and I have done everything, and I have no problem with experience and ability. After working, I applied for an adult undergraduate degree, which is the kind that can get a certificate just after paying the money, but most companies don’t recognize this at all. I have been pushed by several companies before, and they all said that as long as the HR level can be passed, there is no problem. As a result, every time HR calls to ask if it is a full-time undergraduate, then it becomes yellow.
The most annoying thing is that during the epidemic last year, my good friend recommended a good company. First, the supervisor had a direct video interview, and the position was the marketing supervisor. The more we talked, the happier we were, and we talked three at once. hour. Finally, the supervisor told me that once the administration will add you to WeChat, you can fill in your academic certificate and ID card information and report to the headquarters.
As a result, HR said to me: “I’m sorry, but the management requires that the first degree is a bachelor degree.” In my mood at the time, I really wanted to cry without tears, but I didn’t make it.
I didn’t take academic qualifications seriously in the early days. When I just graduated, I started as an individual. The starting point was better than the high school classmates who went to undergraduate at the same time, because income and time are free. But then I discovered that I actually missed a lot of opportunities in this process. For example, when I was doing a small business, Liu Qiangdong was in Zhongguancun. One day, a big brother told me that I didn’t need to ask him for quotations every week. I had a JD network. When Android first entered China, I was just curious and tried. I finished the system several times, but later discovered that a certain Internet team had already relied on handling the revised version of the foreign system, and in the forum, fans were ready to realize it.
I have encountered all kinds of outlets, but it didn’t take off. I think it has something to do with academic qualifications. There are some invisible things about academic qualifications, which are not in books. The people you may encounter and the environment in a bachelor’s degree are indeed different from those of a junior college, which will affect young people in a subtle way. After all, at that timeWe will not be able to reach the society.
An obvious phenomenon is that any undergraduate library is basically full, but the Internet cafe of any junior college is definitely full. Although things are not so absolute, it is true that most of them are like this. There is no harm if there is no comparison. Not a full-time undergraduate, it is probably my lifelong nightmare.
The specialists do the rest of the work chosen by others
You have to take a bachelor degree in both directions
Empty| 26-year-old college financial officer of a state-owned enterprise
I have a college degree. I didn’t have much interest in learning since I was a child. After graduating from junior high school, I went to a five-year college and learned accounting from my family’s opinions. There is no learning atmosphere in the school. I don’t have much planning, and I don’t want to be so motivated. Apart from attending classes, I have watched American dramas and movies for 5 years.
I also took the college entrance examination with the current, but it was two points away. I was sad and depressed for a while, and I was more convinced that I was not for studying, so I came out to look for a job. It turns out that the job I can find is to do accounts in an agency bookkeeping company, earning 2,000 a month. After working for 2 months, I found that I couldn’t make a living. Only then did I realize life. Difficult.
After that, I went to real estate sales again, without a basic salary, and lived on commission. The commission is basically three-thousandths of the monthly sales. But how can I be able to do such a bloody job with such a Buddhist discipline? Every morning, waving his fists and shouting slogans like a fool, the customers who finally talked about were also snatched away by strong colleagues. The sales industry is like a world of animals where the weak and the strong. The more I persuaded them, the more they became worse. I didn’t want to rob customers, and even ganged up to run on me, so that I was being bullied like a quail. .
After I went home and cried loudly with my parents, my mother began to ask someone to leave the relationship and let me join a state-owned enterprise, which is also a leading company in our local area. After entering, the working atmosphere is much better than that of a real estate company. I still do financial work related to my original major, but I feel that the company treats academic qualifications differently. PhD, master, undergraduate,For a college degree, there will be a difference of 1,000 yuan for each level of education. Moreover, if there is more than one degree, no formal contract will be signed, and the insurance purchased by the unit will be different.
But after all, it’s a big company. I think I can learn a lot here, and I can also see the hope of promotion. I took an adult undergraduate exam and was admitted to a normal school in our province.
After having this experience, I began to feel that the specialists are all leftover jobs selected by others. A bachelor’s degree is still very important. It is a basic threshold for entering a company and having a more stable life, like recently I have also seen the news. People may think that academic qualifications represent a person’s learning ability and effort. This is not a problem. It’s just that the HR revealed the unit’s true thoughts, and everyone can’t accept it.
After two years in the library, I passed the college entrance examination
I was said “Only you are not a master” in the interview
Li Mao| 26-year-old professional upgrade car sales
The moment I failed the college entrance examination, I knew I would never be happy again.
My grades can only go up to three books, but because of high tuition fees, I finally went to college. I went home during the first holiday and participated in the high school class reunion. Everyone was discussing college life at the dinner table. I didn’t participate in the topic. I’ve been eating food. When a classmate clinked glasses with me, he said, “You also talk about it. , Your junior college can be considered a university, don’t be inferior, buddy.”
After that meal, I got home very late and woke up my mother. She said: “This kind of meal is less frequent. People are 985, 211, and no matter how bad they are, they are also undergraduates.”
I set a goal for myself in the first semester, and within three years I will get an undergraduate degree. The moment I leave school, I must be an undergraduate.
Before the college entrance examination, I deliberately prepared a high school classmates gathering a few months in advance, specifically looking for abusers, listening to them talk about college life, and how hard it is to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination. That time I matured and laughed more than any other person that night Everyone is happy.
I succeeded in the college promotion exam. After graduating, I got on the northbound train, and then I kept submitting resumes, waiting for phone calls, and interviewing. At that time a big company was crazyI was hiring madly, maybe I was a fish who slipped through the net, and I was even notified of the interview. That time it was a group of 7 people. The interviewer raised a question for everyone to discuss. I tried my best to behave normally. I told myself, maybe more than one of these 7 people is a junior college graduate.
The group interview was over, and the interviewer smiled and walked in front of me. My mind was blank, and I was still thinking about how I did just now. As a result, she said in front of everyone, you don’t need to say your result. , You are the only one here with less than a master’s degree. I stood up and left, and said “thank you”. I thank her for telling me what I learned in person
Later, I quickly found a sales job and talked to a girlfriend because she has always claimed to be my face fan, which made me relieved. During that time, my life and heart were very peaceful, just like most people.
My girlfriend and I are in Beijing, one in Haidian and the other in Fengtai, but they are no different from different places and spend very little time together. When I met for the second time, I was asked why the university didn’t fall in love. I pretended to say casually that it was to prepare for the college entrance examination, and I talked with books in the library for two years.
She didn’t say anything at the time, I thought I passed. Later, she quarreled on WeChat because of a trivial matter, so she specifically called: “Do you find it hard to talk to someone with a low degree of education? You are clearly arguing about the matter, and he just wants to quarrel with you. “Hang up that call, I never contacted her again.
Recently, I received psychological counseling. The counselor said a bunch of tangy talks that I couldn’t hear at all, but there was one sentence that made me shine–Among people with higher education than you, only Those who do not mix well will laugh at you because of your low education.
This sentence became my self-comfort medicine. I know this is a kind of Ah Q spirit, but people always have to reconcile with themselves, don’t they?
I feel that the three books are at the bottom of the contempt chain
Until now I have resisted changing jobs
Cainazi| 27 years old, three graduates, media practitioners
I came to Beijing for an internship in the second half of my junior year. I found a good media platform with professional leadership and a good working atmosphere. A big leader I admired very much. After a long time, I told my direct leader that I am veryDiligent and serious. At that time, I had the idea of working hard for an internship and staying in Beijing.
The journalists in our department are all highly educated. The interns who come are all graduates of Tsinghua University and the People’s University. Some colleagues have academic discrimination. They don’t say it directly, but when they go out for activities, they will be deliberate. Inadvertently chatting about who graduated where. I feel like an accident, maybe I was too short of people to recruit me at that time. If you want to become a full-time employee, you still have to look at your academic qualifications. After three or four months of internship, I still didn’t stay.
The real history of blood and tears is when I graduated and looked for a job.
I am already a senior after my internship. I wanted to find a job in the media in Beijing. I did not respond to my resume for two months, so I came to Beijing first. This time, I deeply feel that Sanben is despising the bottom of the chain.
I have been looking for more than a month in Beijing. I have voted for all kinds of website editors, operations, and reporters. I don’t have many interviews. Once I went to the written examination stage, I was directly told that my academic qualifications were not enough. Afterwards, I wrote the answers to the written test questions in a small notebook just like preparing for the college entrance examination. The frustration, humiliation, and unwillingness were all in it. The next interview completely defeated me.
The interview I felt was pretty good, the first interview, the final interview, and the written test were all ok. One day I was on the way to see the exhibition, and I received a call to inform the interview result as soon as I got out of the subway. The sister who first interviewed praised me a lot, saying that my overall quality is very good, and the written test is also very good. I thought it was OK this time, but she said that I ranked third among the candidates. They only need two people, and they said very tactfully, it’s not that you are not good, our kind of unit values academic qualifications. The first two people both graduated from key undergraduates and both graduated with master’s degrees. We also recognize your ability, but some things are like this, and finally asked me if I would like to be an intern.
At that time, I felt the whole world collapsed completely. I calmly said I’ll think about it first. In fact, I was already crying. After I hung up the phone, I leaned on the railing at the subway entrance and kept crying. I’m too tired. I have been looking for a job for three or four months. I am under great financial pressure. I want to have an income as soon as I can. It’s more like paralyzing myself, so I don’t have to think about it anymore.
After calming down a bit, I was at the subway entrance, opened the recruitment software, looked at the positions that were still okay, and voted. One of them replied to me after ten minutes and asked me to go for an interview, and I immediately took a seat I went for an interview on the subway. In the afternoon, when I passed the interview, I was hired.
I didn’t like that job. It was a website porter. After half a year, I resigned. Later, I repeatedly fought for the position of a journalist at a start-up self-media. I gradually gained experience as a journalist, with my own representative works, and became the management of a media.
People are more mature and can look at this problem sensibly, but they still have a low school background, veryI admire people with good education very much. I have the idea of postgraduate entrance examination, but I have never believed that I can. Up to now, I am more resistant to changing jobs and submitting resumes. I am worried that I will be denied again because of my academic qualifications. The psychological hint is very strong, and I can only heal myself slowly.
I went from the junior college to the MBA exam
Still not getting the same treatment as undergraduate
Ma Wei| 31-year-old professional upgrade Internet operation
When I graduated from a junior college in Beijing, I got a job as a head teacher in a vocational school through school recruitment. The school was about to close in four years, and I had to start looking for a new job.
This experience of looking for a job hit me deeply. The mainstream education companies in the market had all contacted them, and the whole army was wiped out. Some HR directly said: “We only need 985, 211 or more here.”
For months to find a job without success, I collapsed several times during the period. Finally, I changed my mind and decided to improve my academic qualifications first. In the second half of 2016, I passed the college entrance examination and entered a 211 university in Beijing.
During the college promotion period, I participated in student clubs, applied for study tours organized by the school, and looked for a large number of high-quality internships in an attempt to expand my ability and horizons.
After getting the graduation certificate for college promotion in 2018, I started looking for a job again. However, I found that the market’s recognition of the promotion of the undergraduate program is not very high. The big companies that were able to enter during the internship would never give me the opportunity to become a regular undergraduate student. Sometimes after submitting the resume, the HR on the spot will look at it carefully, wondering: “Why is your undergraduate only three years?” I ended up just Able to join a small company.
Later, I made up my mind to continue to improve my academic qualifications and take the full-time MBA. However, what I did not expect is that when taking the MBA, the first degree is a junior college, and I will still be treated differently.
I applied for my ideal school for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020. Last year I failed the interview again. I called the admissions office teacher to ask about the reason. The admissions office teacher responded: “The first degree is a bit weak , The accumulation of experience is not rich enough.” Suddenly I felt 10,000 critical strikes.
Although the interview failed, I still plan toI will take the exam in the next year, so I can’t change to another school until I get accepted.
I was born in a populous province, and the local college entrance examination is very competitive. I was in a high school in the town. You can’t imagine that we are in high school and the teachers still use dialects in class, even the recitation of classical Chinese texts. , We all recite in dialect. So I think that I didn’t get a bachelor’s degree. On the one hand, there are reasons for my ability, and on the other hand, it must have something to do with the education level of my hometown. But I have to admit that I didn’t get a bachelor’s degree. .
The past five years have been five years for me to catch up with others, but it took five years and I haven’t caught up. Next, I have to continue to catch up.
Associate degree is discriminated against by undergraduate, junior college is discriminated against by graduate students
Discrimination in the workplace is everywhere
Xinxin| 29-year-old professional promotion advertising company design
After graduating, I wanted to visit the big city. I came to Beijing with two other friends. The three rented a room in Tongzhou, put two beds, and stayed like this.
I was about to graduate at the time, and I was not qualified to choose a job. I had cast a few positions in the intern monk. I really didn’t know what I could do. One company actually passed my interview. But after I went to that company, I knew why they said they didn’t need my academic qualifications. In that company, the boss relied on mingling with contacts and formed a grass-roots team, mainly for training, and other businesses were doing what they did. Therefore, many people were eating and waiting to die in it, fooling the boss.
I’m a design post, and I need to design posters for each training event. In fact, I just copy someone else’s posters. I also want to be creative by myself, but one of my two bosses does his own private work every day and throws all the work to me. The things I hand in are marked with his name and workload; the other doesn’t understand design at all, but She is a leader and always asks me to change it, Shut up, “You are a specialist in unprofessional, listen to your brother X, you are a high-achieving student”.
It’s not a big deal. The year-end bonus is issued at the end of the year. The boss said that everyone will be paid an extra month’s salary based on their usual salary, and the cash will be found when the annual meeting is held. In the end, I saw that only my envelope was flat, the envelopes of other people were almost bursting, and some people still had several envelopes. I went to ask HR, and she replied, youWho has the opportunity, but no one has ever thought that the final candidate is me, because I am a “college student”. The fact is indeed the case. The leader even chatted with me once and told me, “You are actually good at everything, you have the ability, and you work hard, and people who are mixed are not bad, but it’s your academic qualifications…”
I always think that failing to get a bachelor’s degree cannot be equated with being smart or not. Failure to enter a bachelor’s degree may be due to his poor learning status at the time, or lack of learning awareness and no idea what his academic qualifications mean. And after working for a long time, you will find that academic qualifications cannot be equated with intelligence and ability. College students and undergraduates have their own emphasis on what they learn when they go to school. But when it comes to work, everyone still depends on ability. This ability not only depends on book knowledge, but also requires practice and experience.
But when the company felt that it wanted to reuse or promote me, academic qualifications became the biggest stumbling block in my career. So I thought about applying for a self-examination and upgrading from a college to undergraduate, so that I can also be on the salary list for promotion in the future.
Both college and Peking University graduates may be passed by me
What the boss hires is not about academic qualifications but probability
Qing Liu| 42-year-old CEO of a startup company
When I recruit people, I will definitely look at the academic qualifications, and I mainly look at the demand profile of the job to match different academic qualifications. Too high or too low academic qualifications may not meet the requirements.
I was recruiting BD recently, and I had a master’s resume. I just passed it because the nature of this position determines his mentality and he can’t do it anymore. I’m going to recruit a ground push, you have to send a master over there, arrogant to death, can not solve the problem, because it is not practical.
I met a girl from Peking University a few days ago. After a few words of conversation, I also passed her. It’s no other reason, because she’s too smart, and she habitually asks and raises questions, and communicates in this way. The cost is extremely high and very tiring. The boss’s decision-making logic is that you have to execute it quickly. Many smart people are easy to make mistakes, that is, they love to take the bar, so I don’t want that kind of very smart people.
Education discrimination, in fact, discrimination is not academic qualifications, it is just a process of discrimination. Human abilities are inherently three-six-nineAnd other divisions. The dragon and the phoenix have their own way, and the mouse has its own way.
For example, advertising companies that do luxury goods will never recruit a student from a very poor family because he has no knowledge. Many people in the luxury goods industry are in very good backgrounds. If you hire someone who doesn’t even know what LV is, your training costs will be very high.
The relationship between academic qualifications and actual work ability must follow a certain normal distribution. In other words, under high probability, people with higher education are smarter. When I screen people, I look at probability. I choose a line. For example, I want a bachelor’s degree. I don’t want anyone below this line. The reason is simple. I don’t want to spend time in it. I just want to improve my work efficiency. The same is true for recruiting BDs without a bachelor’s degree, just to improve efficiency, nothing more. As the boss of a company, I want to allocate my time. I don’t mean to give me a resume, I have to look at it. I’m not helping job applicants achieve their goals.
This is not to say that the boss does not respect people with low academic qualifications. I am talking about efficiency. Just like you want to watch a cockfight, you can’t catch two ducks to fight because it doesn’t fight. The position depends on the degree of matching, and the boss’s goal is to be sufficient.
Some positions only recruit undergraduates. This definitely requires the applicant to be smart, such as a data analyst. If a person doesn’t even understand excel, where do you expect him to be more efficient? And like this kind of post, a graduate student may really not be able to do a junior college student.
In the case of HR in the Hangzhou company, many people jumped out to scold others. Anyway, they scolded all HR and bosses indiscriminately. The person who stood up and scolded his mother today was because he was stinged. A person with strong self-esteem is the easiest to be stinged, and a person with a lower ability has a stronger self-esteem, and a person with a strong ability will not be disturbed by such things.
*The title picture comes from Unsplash. At the request of the interviewee, Wen Kongkong, Zhiyuan, Li Mao, Cai Nazi, Ma Wei, Xinxin, Zhang Bin, and Liu Qing are all pseudonyms.