Bill Gates Quotes

Not having a job makes it harder to get one. Employers are more wary/

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

The career I have had should warrant me getting a job. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA.

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

Nobody thinks it necessary to make a law that only a strong-armed man shall be a blacksmith. Freedom and competition suffice to make blacksmiths strong-armed men

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Most people, when they hire you, they want some experience on the resume.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.

I had a lot of different jobs.

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

As a general rule, when your child, or anyone in the work force, doesn't know what he/she wants to do, they should instead always be developing skills and competencies that will qualify them for the jobs that companies are most looking to fill and increase their hireability.

We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.