It depends on what you see in your future. With a university degree, you have chance at climbing the ladder and be a manager someday even. WIth the other two, its almost impossible. University education keeps your options open. Other categories, do not. They allow you to do a job - but might limit your career growth.
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Originally Posted by unsuiwarrior  Experience trumps all. I used to be a chef. I would take a guy who had a year line experience over any culinary school grad any day of the week. |
This is only true sometimes. Some managers will hire experience over talent if the job doesn't involve much problem solving and thinking etc. and just depends on experience. An extreme example is that if a project is due soon, you don't want a new grad coming in who needs a longer learning curve. I personally know of someone who graduated from a top techie US university who got a job over a much more experienced guy simply b/c of the school my friend went to - even though the other guy did better during the interview due to his experience.
The new grad might be smarter and have much more talent than the veteran. Give him a two/three months, and he might be better than the old guy if the projects you are working on requires some innovation.
There are 4 main categories of people I think: {veteran, smart}, {veteran, not smart}, {new grad, smart}, {new grad, not smart}. A veteran who is smart will be VERY expensive. You probably can't afford him. He'll be at Google or Amazon making a lot of $$.. And I am SURE you don't want a new guy who is stupid. So, its a contest between the other two categories..