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View submission: Do highschool grades matter?
If you are incredibly hardworking, have great drive, and have some luck, yes you too can be Bill gates. For the rest of us, qualifications matter. A degree is important as it opens doors and gets you the interview. I have had interviews, as I have a masters. I would not have had an interview without the masters.
If you want to something medical, teaching, law etc., you MUST have the appropriate qualifications, or you cannot be registered. And without registration, you will not get a job. Most jobs require a certain level of education. Engineering, my field, requires people to have been to university. One of friends has all the attributes a good employee needs, but can't progress up the corporate ladder as he is not a qualified architect.
So I would say qualifications matter, they get you in the door. Once there, it is your attitude, how responsible you are, how much you apply yourself, etc., that matters, and people without qualifications, sometimes have no stickability and it shows. So Employers simply do not have the time for the unqualified. Business is about making money. You make the business money, they want you.
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