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Recently, a trending topic has appeared online in China.
A graduate student from a prestigious university passed five rounds of interviews and was preparing to start work at a large company.
However, the company ultimately withdrew its job offer because his earliest qualification was a junior-college diploma rather than a bachelor’s degree.
This incident has sparked widespread discussion in society.
During the job-hunting process, many people call the first diploma obtained after graduating from high school their “first degree.”
When hiring, some companies, although they do not state it publicly, prefer applicants who attended prestigious schools from the beginning.
Regarding this phenomenon, China’s Ministry of Education has repeatedly made it clear that the term “first degree” does not exist in official policy, and job seekers’ educational qualifications should be judged by their highest degree.
Many people believe that judging someone only by their earliest diploma is very unfair.
Even if someone had an ordinary starting point, being admitted later to a graduate program at a good university through hard work shows that they have continued to improve.
If employers look only at an early diploma, they deny all of that person’s efforts and can easily make people feel that “one exam can determine an entire life.”
In fact, diplomas do not fully represent a person’s ability to work.
Life is a long-distance race; one exam cannot determine a person’s entire future.
More and more people believe that companies should change their views, pay more attention to job seekers’ actual abilities and potential for growth, and give every hardworking young person a fair opportunity.