Helping partner with no degree to get a corporate job
The title. Partner has no degree, lots of customer service experience (bartender) and is a sharp cookie. No interest in learning to program/ pursuing a degree, but can pick things up quickly and would be good at running meetings, making dashboards, or handling something not too technical Would love to get my partner a job on a 9-5 schedule, one which would have benefits that would allow me to take more risks as a developer and would also get paid maternity when we have some kiddos. Currently I'm a corporate stooge in telecom and have a fair number of connections at some large companies that would be happy to refer my partner. Has anyone had any luck doing this? Would love suggestions on roles to target, things I might be failing to consider, or hear about your experiences. Thanks! #tmobile #nordstrom #amazon #meta #google #microsoft #bartender #partner #maternity #jobhunt #hr #recruiting #startups Edit--- My bad! Tc 100k Yoe 1.5
I guess it depends what kind of corporate job you are hoping she gets. Just something with benefits and a 9-5 or do you care about her getting decent pay to match what she makes bartending? I hate to say it but most corporate jobs outside of programming or call center work (which probably pays a lot less than bartending) are going to have a bachelor's as a bare minimum requirement. Even if she could get a call center job, the room for promotions is low without a degree. I do know some older folks (50+ YO) who have advanced without one, but I don't think doors are open like they used to be for internal advancement without certain boxes ticked. Is there any interest in her going back to school for a degree?
My partner doesn't want a degree, and wouldn't touch a call center job even if it paid well. I'm hoping my partner can get something with decent pay but it doesn't need to be bartending money. I guess I'm wondering if there's a way to leverage my position or my connections and get my partners foot in the door with no degree. I don't really see a great way to pull it off, so I figured I would ask here to see if anyone had some bright ideas.
Given non tech interest and bartending experience: look for Customer Experience, Customer Support, Sales/Business Development Representative, Marketing Coordinator, Recruiting Coordinator, Recruiter, Sales Operations Analyst All will pay well, would have your partner research and then apply to these to learn more about the roles and talk to recruiters /hiring managers
Also executive assistant
Thanks for the suggestions! I think recruiting coordinator would be perfect and definitely doesn't require a degree. Executive assistant is what one of my friends suggested, but remote would be even more ideal
I like this post. You can clearly see that your partner has valid transferable skills that don’t require formal education, yet these HR managers act completely clueless or write ppl off if they don’t have a PhD
I too think she could excel in lots of things bur also agree with previous person that training on the job is so frowned upon nowadays. Plus, she likely could be looked over for promotion in the future solely because she doesn’t have the gold star.
Yeah the degree bar is annoying, but an understandable filter in many cases. My partner only wants to work for 1-3 years before quitting to focus on family, so not worried about promotions. Mostly hoping to get paid maternity haha
Sounds the partner should do software sales instead. Those can earn quite big based on commission. And it's pretty much talking to people all day long. Getting ready for massive amount of cold calling and rejections. If the partner can handle clients and getting rejected all day long. Sales could 200k-300k if they are good
Could try an entry level sales role at places like Yelp, ADP, CDW. That’s what I did with no degree. TC when I started: 70k TC now: 250k YOE: 8
Admin assistant, executive admins, business operations, merch analyst, vendor desk specialist…..all don’t require degrees but could be up your partners alley!
I’m not sure how a meeting can be run if there is no tech background in my team... Maybe she can try interviewing for a customer specialist in a bigger tech company?
We have a lot of meetings at tmobile where there is a person who puts together a power point and introduces the speakers, but does not touch any technical jargon. Or even the person who runs our scrum meetings does not even know how to write hello world, they just take notes for the manager.
Those people are the first to get cut as they really are not needed