A Skill or a degree

[SlowPP]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

[SlowPP]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

Degree is just a name but Skil really matters by the time you are wasting your time going to be in library and Auditor to read voluminously books,the person with Skil is already exhibiting the talent to make money like in China even the children or primary school are doing practical what is the extend of degree without practical that's why most of the graduate from polytechnic are better in Skil than university because degree without practical is just like tea without sugar.

[Blaze Giovanni]

They're not mutually exclusive. You can have both if you want. A skill is important and so is a degree.
You said a degree is a broad category of knowledge and that is a good thing. It broadens your mind. It makes you think outside of the box. Your time in a higher institution makes you adaptive and helps you improvise. You'll be able to research properly.
In a skill you just focus on what you're learning and nothing more. So outside of that field, you don't know much.
That's why I am of the school of thought that people should have both, especially people from our country. We all know the situation in Nigeria and it doesn't hurt to have degrees and also have skills. You never know which would be beneficial to you.

Degree is just a name but Skil really matters by the time you are wasting your time going to be in library and Auditor to read voluminously books,the person with Skil is already exhibiting the talent to make money like in China even the children or primary school are doing practical what is the extend of degree without practical that's why most of the graduate from polytechnic are better in Skil than university because degree without practical is just like tea without sugar.

Are you for real? How did you come across these conclusions? What proof do you have to show that graduates of polytechnic do better than university graduates? And you think a skill doesn't require a learning period? You don't learn the skill, you know how to do it?
You believe acquiring knowledge is a waste of time, I don't even know why I'm taking this seriously.

[Kliss]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

Op it's a very nice topic, but to choose one out of  the two is not a great Idea or advice. Because both skill acquisition and degree are Important, people are benefitting with their  degree and also people are benefitting from skills they acquire and there are people who are benefitting from both of them. The best way is having degree and also supporting it with skill acquisition, it can boost you your qualifications more .

Although degree is not meant for everyone but for those who knows the value and intend to be professional and enlightened in knowledge . Even at  school they teach you entrepreneurship how to acquire skills and not to depend on your Educational qualification alone. So best is acquiring both of them degree and skill it will help, example some one who is skillful in furniture making and posses degree in fine applied arts do you think he will be on the same level with one possessing degree or skill alone.

In conclusion having both especially in this country will be very essential and beneficial to possess both degree and skill.

[Adams0001]

You no suppose select one out of the two, get the both of them. If you get your BA or MSC and also a skill alongside it, that is great, i know say as our society dey now, to find job dey hard and people rely on the skills wey dem don garner, but that one no make us leave education, go check the number of people wey dey take Jamb every year, you go understand say we still value education, which is great.

Getting a degree go also give you better exposure and even help you to understand the skills wey you wan learn, for example e go hard for you to see person wey get tech or computer skills wey no be graduate, so make we embrace both getting a degree and a skill too.

Na true you talk person need to get the two skills and degree, because he help very well because without education many people will not succeed because if you are not educated no one will see your value, if you are rich and you are not educated you will not get plan you will be spending money anyway that is why some people will be buying things that they didn't need, because they have money to spend they don't know the benefits and they don't know how to use it that is why even you have money you should pray you should get money that will be useful to you.

Skill is a great thing in the country because how our naija dey, no job, and I think that is why some people don't like continuing school because they believe that if they finish, they won't get a great job, so they engage in skills, but I will advise someone to go to school because opportunity comes only once. if you are educated and you are doing skills that one will be good and you will no your right anytime,  if a job comes now and you are not educated you just engage in skills that means you lose the opportunity but if you are educated you can get the job and he will change your features that is why it is good to go for the both.

[Lida93]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

Op me I wonder what you understand by skill, is it that you no know say for university skill disciplines dey there or abi as them call am professional courses you no come understand am abi? You see courses in the university like engineering courses such as architecture, civil engineer, electrical and electronic engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacist etc all these can also be classified as skill based jobs gotten from the university but they are referred to as professional disciplines.

There's no competition at all in this matter, any of the area way you are opportune to find yourself just do your best to be the best there to keep you outstanding. For what I know, no how way craft skill man go earn money pass person wey be graduate get certificate wey their two the work for the same company. But based on how we country just get as it be, it go good say you get one better skill immediately you finish secondary school before battling to gain admission into university to obtain university degree. E get why ooh.

[Antotena]

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

I hope you do know that having a degree in school doesn't guarantee you of any job even with a networking but with a skill, if you market your self very well, you will get one or two gigs and with more good feedbacks, you will sell yourself more faster than a person with a degree. However, I think you should work more to get a degree and then get a skill along with it, you will having two bird with one hand and you will enjoy the beauty of life in every place you found yourself. A chemical Engineer can have a modeling skills and software programing as part of his skills, this will help you sell out more and I'm speaking from experience because it's what I do.

The country is global hay where job opportunities are going down and down because even statistically, there has been a shortage of jobs over the last 8-9 years and we are having more and more graduates every year in addition to the ones we have had before and the competition is getting stringer and stronger because today graduates are looking even more younger than the previous generations which is making jobs tighter. Try and get yourself a skill.

[Richbased]

E just dey very unfortunate say we dey in a country wey e be say any small thing dem go say make you go bring your certificate like is it certificate that's doing the job? or the individual, this is why I like the western countries because not that they don't value certificate o but they are very much concerned about what you can offer or what you know about a particular skill before they can hire you and even if they see that you ain't too familiar with that particular skill, they always take people for training all the time in other to keep their brain active on the kind of job they're doing but in our country, they act as though if you don't have a certificate then no job or work for you and we act as if we know too much but when a problem occur they'll still go and look for expertrates abroad and sometimes these expertrates wey them dey go call for abroad na people wey no even get certificate but due to say Dem dey trained for some technical work e come be like say them too Sabi.

E dey very important for us to know say ability of an individual matters a lot rather than the person's certification because even now sef people dey buy certificates even when them no get any knowledge for the area wey dem dey certify dem for and some companies and firms wey e be say Dem for employ people wey Sabi work but due to say Dem wan use dia close relatives Dem for de position go take because of say person no get certificate deny de person the work wen e be say na person wey get experience then come carry their brothers Dem wey no Sabi anything but due to say Dem get the certificate Dem Cary Dem put for office wey Dem no get any single idea.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

I hope you do know that having a degree in school doesn't guarantee you of any job even with a networking but with a skill, if you market your self very well, you will get one or two gigs and with more good feedbacks, you will sell yourself more faster than a person with a degree. However, I think you should work more to get a degree and then get a skill along with it, you will having two bird with one hand and you will enjoy the beauty of life in every place you found yourself. A chemical Engineer can have a modeling skills and software programing as part of his skills, this will help you sell out more and I'm speaking from experience because it's what I do.

The country is global hay where job opportunities are going down and down because even statistically, there has been a shortage of jobs over the last 8-9 years and we are having more and more graduates every year in addition to the ones we have had before and the competition is getting stringer and stronger because today graduates are looking even more younger than the previous generations which is making jobs tighter. Try and get yourself a skill.

These days, a degree is not really a guarantee for anyone to have a job or like the job they are in. Having a skill before having obtained a degree helps anyone navigate the financial hurdles involved in schooling, attending lectures, buying handouts and working on projects.
So tell me why after having the degree, one shouldn't improve on such skills to earn better, without even waiting for a job.

If one has no skills and have obtained a degree, it is good to learn a skill while waiting for a job, who knows maybe one might just find what makes them a millionaire without stress.

[DaveNeck]

Talking about skill or digree no doubt skill most times is what is required for a job to be done  so employers most times wants to know how skillfull you can be over a job  but  it still doesn't take the place of a digree I think on top of a digree one needs to add a skill in other to gain relevance

[Mr.suevie]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

Why make people choose when you can actually acquire the two and make yourself more advance in terms of securing a job, because the system now only a degree doesn't cut it although that too still depends on the particular degree that you are having but majority of Nigerians know this and have started evolving themselves to make life a little bit easier the labour market. There are many Nigerian and not only Nigeria too, many people actually have the both because the society at large have changed a lot and securing and developing yourself in the highest way is the only possible solution to be different from the rest people in the market.

[MainIbem]

Both are essential in our life but we wey be 9ja believe for skills pass degree especially with the Igbo's their men believe say going to school na waste of resources instead they want to use that money to invest into business before 5 years you will gain your Degree they would become boss of their own and starts making money while you that holds your Degree will start looking for job in their offices. I know say many people go say school na scam but school as the name implies brings you more closer to lots of opportunities and teaches you how to interacts with clients and people around locality be it internationally sometimes it gives you more connections abroad and can interact with the white when their is a business corporation.

I think with this our dying economy we don't know if school is important because there are graduates everywhere and in every year by years we have millions of graduates in the labor market sources for job and works, those who goes to school hardly makes a living making life too difficult for them to survive that is why we always have this slogan that school is scam. Of curse school will be scam if we don't have a good governance in the system, school is not scam when we have a good and functioning economy where every graduates do have work after leaving school.

[Biggeno]

I have gone through some of the comments or should I say replies and in one way or the other we are all correct but I still bring my opinion that having the two is not just good but beneficial to an individual.

In respective of the kind of skill or degree we can still make a living if only we know how to play our cards properly and if course Nigeria has its own wahala, we should at least have the two of them

[RockBell]

Both are essential in our life but we wey be 9ja believe for skills pass degree especially with the Igbo's their men believe say going to school na waste of resources instead they want to use that money to invest into business before 5 years you will gain your Degree they would become boss of their own and starts making money while you that holds your Degree will start looking for job in their offices. I know say many people go say school na scam but school as the name implies brings you more closer to lots of opportunities and teaches you how to interacts with clients and people around locality be it internationally sometimes it gives you more connections abroad and can interact with the white when their is a business corporation.

I think with this our dying economy we don't know if school is important because there are graduates everywhere and in every year by years we have millions of graduates in the labor market sources for job and works, those who goes to school hardly makes a living making life too difficult for them to survive that is why we always have this slogan that school is scam. Of curse school will be scam if we don't have a good governance in the system, school is not scam when we have a good and functioning economy where every graduates do have work after leaving school.

if the two are available then you won't have any financial issues at all because if your degree does not give you a job then your skill will give you one so is just as if any of the two will put food on your table. I love skills that have to do with construction, fashion, and many more because these are things that people need. at the same time, I don't blame the Igbos for saying school is a waste of time since they believe in trading rather than going to school. look at what is happening globally with the issue of unemployment. but does that have served their master well during trade will be settled and they will start making money? and does that only rely on their degree will be wandering around looking for jobs and at the end of the day they will be known. seriously business open does for a lot of people. going to school is not bad but the government has made it lose its value and now people feel school is useless just because it can not offer them anything. and left to me both school and skill can be acquired so that anyone that is available to feed you then you make use of it.

[Zackz5000]

Both are important but considering the nature of the country now if you ask me to choose I will go for skill, skill is more valuable than degree because non of the caller job is available unless you are connected to someone that knows someone that also knows someone. Just imagine spending 5 years in the higher institution after paying huge amount of money to get a degree at the end of the day you can't be able to get a job or a good job with your degree, again imagine going for a skill probably the one that has a duration of 1 to 2 years at the end you can start a business of your own become your own CEO and even still employ the person with a degree.
I could remember when I was in NYSC Orientation camp the NYSC moderators there will always tell us that there no white caller job that is why they always emphasis on learning a skill, they introduce SEAD in other to reduce the high rate of unemployment in the country.

[Belarge]

Talking about skill or digree no doubt skill most times is what is required for a job to be done  so employers most times wants to know how skillfull you can be over a job  but  it still doesn't take the place of a digree I think on top of a digree one needs to add a skill in other to gain relevance

We gain good reputation based on the level of achievement we've made in life. I'm thinking about doing everything possible to have a smooth running career and I know it's not easy to comprehend the system but we should keep full 100% focus on the system. We should ensure on our end to meet up the require earnings and position stationed in life. Both skill and a degree is important in the system and we should always keep open minds for the exploring matches that will follow.

[Abbatty]

I don’t think this debate or argument have a specific answer. To me oo I feel say e de base on individual perspective, like it depends on how everybody reason am. Why I talk am be say the both area for the debate no de really do well for the country. Shey na the degree aspect Abi na the skill aspect you wan talk about. Person go spend almost 20 years for school still end up not getting a job. Millions of Nigerian graduate de outside there without a job, most inside the ones  wey get job no de really pay well, another percentage de inside the ones wey get job wey de work outside their field, so they are just surviving in the work no be say zeal de for the work wey dem de do. And for the skill aspect, to me skill be like dream, something wey you get passion for. Plenty youth are out there both educated and non educated wey get skills  but still end up not using it just because this country no de make us archive our dreams.

Let take the sport aspect as an example, it could be football, basketball or any other sports. For other European countries a lot of there youth end up living a wealthy life without going to school but rather de get million from their skills. In Nigeria the most common sport na football, take you area as an example how many people wey you grow up with wey sabi play this ball and the ball no still carry them go anywhere, to even achieve your dream for this our country na by God grace.

So me I no really see any difference between having a skill in this country and still having a degree because it can barely make you survive. Na who see work em certificate get use na. So if at all I’m to choose between the 2 in this country I will still prefer to chase a dream i.e I prefer to use my skill than a degree

[Fiasem20]

These two comparison wey you make na two important things wey e no good make person choose one con neglect the other.Acquiring a skill and degree dey important,as e stance so wey the rate of unemployment dey increase for Naija you go see person wey get degree dey job hunt but person wey get skill dey do well because ehn dey use the skill dey hold ehn side.
The rate of unemployment in the Nigeria shouldn't brainwash the people from seeing the value of education.The thing be say go school get the degree and also learn one or more than one skill to take help yourself incase no job opportunity.

[Bitco55]

Plenty reasons why skill dey important pass degree na say di job market dey always change. Wit new technologies and methodologies wey dey develop every time, many of di skills wey people bin dey consider important before fit no dey relevant again. As result, employers dey look for candidates wey fit quick quick learn and adapt to new skills, instead of people wey get degree for specific field.

Again, degree dey often refer to broad category of knowledge, while skills dey refer to specific ability or expertise. Employers dey find people wey get specific skills wey go fit meet di exact needs of their company, instead of general knowledge wey fit no dey useful.

For conclusion, even though degree still fit dey important for many people wey dey find job, e no be everything when e reach to get job or move forward for career. Employers dey look more and more for people wey get specific skills wey go fit apply directly for the job and fit help the company succeed. For today job market, e dey important pass ever to focus on develop skills wey dey demand, so you go fit increase your chance to get job and move forward for your career.

Both skills and degrees are extremely important, so I don't see any reason why we should pick from them. If a skill is said to be the ability to do something well or technique acquired, then a degree is a form of skill. Think about it, doctors can't do what lawyers do, and lawyers can't do what Economists do. Your degree is a piece of evidence that you've learned a special socially needed skill. There are several opportunities one may lose for not having a degree. Economists are usually hired for their extra data analysis skills.

So, endpoint degrees aren't everything and skills aren't everything. Both are valuable and needed.

[Churchillvv]

I for like draw the line between skill and degree and what e really means for the job market of today. Naturally for this our environment for Nigeria we dey only see degree as certificate and not the process or what it takes to achieve the degree. While skill we see him as waiting we just learn or the practicalize for months or years then we need to use am work but big difference day between this skill and degrees something.

now make I explain, when people talk say dem dey find worker wey fit offer or do something tangible for company e no means say person wey go school no fit do am, but weytin dem dey really take about na if the person in question fit think then maje something new out if a situation, but we dey see degree as something wey person just go school collect while some people really sabi the thing wey them learn for school even with the skill wey you get you no still pass them because some of them acquired the skill in the process of acquiring certificate. Just like engineering job (construction) if person wey go school and person wey learn am as skill dey in competition you no fit win the person wey go school because e don learn short cuts to problems concerning construction wey the person wey get am as skill no sabi because e just learn him own knowledge from either one man wey him own knowledge too dey limited but for the person wey go school e pass through rigorous knowledge of different scholars before e come out.

So so what employers dey look at na problem solving mindset not practicality.