Passage 2

Online education is still a hot topic among employers for a number of reasons.Many employers welcome online educational qualifications because they recognize the fact that the individuals who are trained online have vital qualities that other competitors may not have and that they are also trained to the same level as anyone completing a campus course. However, there are still some traditional employers who will still question the fact that the individuals did not sit in a classroom for three or four years. For some reason, those employers do not perceive an online degree as of value.However, these employers are few now simply because the online degreegraduates are filling jobs that may never have otherwise been filled. They are responding to the demand and helping the country to run much more smoothly than it has done in a long time. In fact, online college degrees and technical qualifications have revolutionized the way that the world of education and the world of industry work. Although attitudes are changing, nobody with an online degree should expect not to be challenged when it is presented in a resume or in a job interview because it is still likely to be a topic of discussion.Attending a campus institution makes the degree easily identifiable and easy to track in terms of what the candidate has indeed completed. Online degrees are not as easy to trace and can prove to be quite difficult to substantiate too. However, they both tend to have the same amount of work involved with the latter providing far more useful personal qualities in terms of working off one’s own initiative and time management skills. While that is not to discredit campus graduates, these are qualities that can be pointed out in an interview to help a candidate’s claim to a job!An employer is well within his or her right to check up on an educational background and may indeed be cautious of individuals with online qualifications from universities and colleges that are less well-known because of the number of faking agencies out there. An employer will be skeptical until everything actually checks out. It may even put them off hiring you. This is just because of the healthysuspicion that still lingers over the online degree, and with good reason. However,larger online universities are well-known enough by now to need no explanation. The one question a potential employer will always ask though is why the candidate chose to take an online degree instead of a campus course. This is a question that you always need to be prepared for and have a good answer ready.No matter how well you try to prepare for an interview, you can never count on which way an employer will go or what view of an online degree he or she will take, so you need to have answers prepared for every possibility. Trying to predict the reaction will often land you in more trouble than assuming the worst. Always assuming the worst is the best advice that you could take because you are then prepared for anything. If you are confident and put faith in your degree, providing evidence to substantiate the fact that it is real, it should no longer hold you back!

Which of the following is true of employers’ attitude toward online degrees?