How do people get jobs they are not qualified for?

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I have been looking on people’s LinkedIn profiles recently and I have noticed a few profiles where people have jobs they are completely not qualified for. This is in both the UK and other countries and it’s in mostly business and IT related sectors. For example they are getting jobs which would usually require a masters degree (in my country anyway) with only high school education.How are they getting those kinds of jobs?

Experience

Luck. Experience.

I ended up with a job I have no qualifications for as I started by volunteering, showed myself to be reliable and hard working and was then asked to apply for a job. I’ve then learned on the job and things are going well.

I imagine some of those people have been promoted into a job and have probably been in the company for a while and worked up. Others might have hustled themselves into the job.

Experience? I know in my sector there are jobs that if you were entering from a place of zero/minimal experience they’d ask for relevant qualifications, but if you have gone in at entry level role and worked up, the qualification isn’t required.

Also, some role titles are misleading - my title implies I have a qualification I don’t have, but is set by the wider organisation and the qualification definitely isn’t needed.

Finally, not everyone lists all their qualifications on LinkedIn - it’s not compulsory to do so, and you never know what they do/don’t have qualification wise.

Yes some of them did seem to have experience and but others seemed to just get those jobs with qualifications or experience which has really confused me

I don't put my qualifications on linked in unless I am job hunting.

Face fits, they talk a load of shit and people fall for it

I work with people who lie about their job title on LinkedIn.

Sometimes it a self given title. I know people who work for small organisations and call themselves the HR director, business manager, finance director. In reality they’re the only person in that department so they’re the boss by default. It’s all a front.

Experience and common sense is more valuable than a master’s degree in some cases

I have qualifications; but I've not had the specific qualifications that my last and current job specifically put in the listing.

My current job also asked for the applicant to be 'proficient' in a certain piece of software, which I had used once for about 12 minutes about two years previously. There was even a test using the software in the interview.

You have to talk the talk and wing it a bit and don't be afraid of saying "I don't know, but I'll learn and I'll learn quickly".

I got my job by completing a lengthy selection process that included a test, a written study that took hours and a panel interview.

Most of my colleagues at the same level have a degree and expert knowledge of the field I work in. I don't!

I met an old childhood friend one time and asked about her siblings. She told me that her younger brother had blagged a really senior, high paying job. She said he could charm the birds off the trees, or words to that effect.

Experience, transferable skills, a successful and relevant track record.

Sometimes just by having the balls to apply and the confidence to follow it through. Sometimes because nobody better was available.

Experience - getting into the job before it needs a degree.

My DH did this. He had a diploma level qual. Anyone coming in now has to have a degree plus jump through multiple registration hoops. So much so no one new is entering the industry.

Experience and lots of it beats many qualifications.
Employers are paying their staff to be good at their jobs, not necessarily the letters after their names.
Exceptions to this are professional posts.

Only applicant
enough transferrable skills that they could persuade someone that they could do it
Main thing is: they saw a job they knew they could do, regardless of any formal qualifications

Experience
Only candidate to apply
Best of a bad bunch
Gift of the gab
Good connections

Sometimes it is experience and hard work, but yeh, sometimes it's just this.

Partly experience, with a hefty amount of confidence thrown in. If you can show yourself to be adaptable, a quick learner and have transferable skills employers will often overlooked a lack of formal qualifications.

One of my friends always used to lie about her qualifications. Never got found out.

She could always do the job.

Those are good points but sometimes they didn’t really have any relevant prior experience no similar roles or internships. Some had just left high school with no work experience or some had left high school with some retail experience but then just landed a high paid professional job in finance consulting or something similar.

That’s interesting which industry was that?

People lie about job titles
People lie about previous job titles
People lie about experience
People lie about qualifications

LinkedIn is full of lies 😂 I've deleted my account as it was so toxic. Most of it is chatgpt now anyway and people can't be bothered to think for themselves and just post absolute shite.

I don't need to know who's having a golf team day. Or who hit their targets. I don't care who did an hours CPD. It's just so mundane.

I got my job im not qualified for by a lot of qualified members of staff leaving and me being asked to "help" in the department. Fast forward 1 year and im now doing the same work as the qualified stage were doing. I will sit the qualification now that I have the knowledge though because if I ever wanted to leave this company I wouldn't get this job elsewhere without the qualification.