That MBA on Your Resume: Is It Holding You Back?

 "Have you considered taking your MBA off your resume?" - Response posted on Reddit Career Guidance to unemployed professional who can't land a job, August 2023 

In a job market that keeps mutating this suggestion might be on the money. Employers are unwilling to pay for higher education not related to how that work is to get done in the now. Also, overall, skills/experience win the day, not academic degrees. One more thing: There seems to be growing bias toward what is perceived as "overeducation."



To accelerate your understanding of what to put out there in a job search a Tarot reading could be useful. That mystical process of conjuring up clarity, dating back to the 14th century, has been helping traditional professionals get with 2023 employment realities. 

A key card in that has been The Tower. Its message is that the past has collapsed. The choice is: Stay stuck staring at the catastrophe or walk confidently away determined to build something new. 

Until the startup ethos took hold at the end of the 20th century, advanced degrees such as the MBA were the "ticket. Then as "move fast and break things" controlled what was developing in the 21st century the value shifted to an intuitive grasp of where money was to be made - and the extreme drive to make that happen. The symbol of that had been Mark Zuckerberg who never completed his undergraduate degree. The more recent version of that is OpenAI's leader Sam Altman who also dropped up before receiving a degree. OpenAI's ChatGPT has been the most significant game-changer since the internet.

Intuition continues to be the critical factor in success. That opens up what gives you the edge, not the scripted patterns you have been "instructed" to see. 

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