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Proving You’re Qualified: Strategies for Competent People Without College Degrees

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Proving You’re Qualified is like a mystery novel. I couldn’t put it down. It’s a page turner so compelling you feel forced to write comments on the side of the pages as you go along. If you would like to have the confidence of a guide who has been there, and who can show the way to realize closure, this may be the most important book you ever read. – James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D., author of The Worker Alone! Going Against The Grain and Work Without Managers: A View From The Trenches.

For more than twenty years, I have been writing about the disparity between learning and credentials. I show people with skills but no credentials how to earn the degree that will open doors for them. Now comes the perfect complement to that work. Charles Hayes’ wonderful Proving You’re Qualified , shows people with skills but few credentials how to parlay their skills into employment and acceptance without benefit of degrees. – John Bear, Ph.D., author of Bear’s Guide To Non-Traditional College Degrees

How can people without college degrees prove competency and overcome common barriers to job advancement and success? Don’t let missing, often arbitrary, credentials hold you down: Hayes provides a program of demonstrating competence in the workplace, emphasizing basic understanding of management systems and company politics in the process of making one’s worth known to the right people in an organization. An unusual, excellent approach to ensuring job security. — Midwest Book Review

How can people without college degrees prove competency and overcome common barriers to job advancement and success? Don’t let missing, often arbitrary, credentials hold you down: Hayes provides a program of demonstrating competence in the workplace, emphasizing basic understanding of management systems and company politics in the process of making one’s worth known to the right people in an organization. An unusual, excellent approach to ensuring job security. –Midwest Book Review

Product Description

Proving You’re Qualified is a career book for competent people who have learned their jobs, on the job. More than 75 percent of the workers in America are without college degrees. Many are highly skilled and capable, yet they are often passed over for promotion for lack of a degree, which has nothing, whatsoever, to do with their performance. This book offers a frank discussion of educational merit and actual performance in a workplace caught in the grip of frightening change. Proving You’re Qualified enables the reader to better understand the nature of power in hierarchies, to gain insight into methods for fighting credentialism, and to save time and money by utilizing alternate methods of adult continuing education.

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One Response to “Proving You’re Qualified: Strategies for Competent People Without College Degrees”

1. Fancy Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 9:36 pm

   In the realm of many books covering self-directed learning, I would like to single out two books which I have read on this subject.

   They are:

   - Self University: The Price of Tuition is the Desire to Learn, by Charles Hayes;
   - Proving You’re Qualified: Strategies for Competent People without College Degrees, by Charles Hayles;

   After having spent twenty-four years in the corporate world, I really consider them to be the wisest & most useful books I have ever read on the subject of self-directed learning.

   ‘Self-University’ is a heart-warming book. It encourages all of us to think of education as a life-long, self-initiated venture instead of a lifeless, institutionalized affair.

   Let me recap the author’s catchy metaphor from this book: “The caterpillar is condemned to crawl, but the butterfly has the potential to soar above with an all-inclusive view of the world. As humans we complete our caterpillar stage when we reach mature physical growth. If we are to soar like the butterflies, we must do so through the development of our minds.”

   ‘Proving You’re Qualified’ is a career book for competent people who have learned their jobs, on the job…& yet they are often passed over for promotion for lack of a degree, which has nothing, whatsoever, to do with their performance. This book offers readers a frank discussion of educational merit and actual performance in a workplace caught in the grip of frightening change. It can help you to better understand the nature of power in hierarchies, to gain insight into methods for fighting credentialism, and to save time and money by utilizing alternate methods of adult continuing education.

   My favourite chapters from ‘Proving You’re Qualified’ are:

   - Chapter 6: Leverage, Options & Choices;
   - Chapter 7: Learning to Live with Change;
   - Chapter 8: Me, Inc.;

   These three chapters alone are worth the price of the entire book!

   The above two books are very thought-provoking. Each chapter of the two books are so compelling that you may feel forced to write comments in the margins of the pages as you go along.

   To sum up my review, these two wonderful books offer an excellent approach to ensuring your career security in the 21st century.