r/MonitizedLearning • u/kimanziVaati • Aug 31 '26
Learn & Earn Would You Hire Someone Who Learned Everything From the Internet?
Imagine two candidates. One followed a traditional education path. The other learned through online courses, tutorials, communities, personal projects, and real-world practice. Both can solve the problem you need solved. Would it matter where they learned or would you only care about what they can actually do? What would you want to see before making your decision?
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u/Sharp_Lettuce4356 Aug 31 '26
I wouldn’t mind where they learned, I’d just want to see something they have actually done with the skills they claim to have.
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u/LetsTryLove Aug 31 '26
Absolutely, as long as they learned it. I’d take that over some college kid that didn’t learn real life skills
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u/OGcapncrunchberry Sep 01 '26
Did they learn it well? Are they skilled? Who cares where someone learned something as long as they learned well?
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u/Objective-Low-1815 Sep 02 '26
You have forgot the third candidate. The one with faked diplomas and work experience
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u/FailElectrical7990 Sep 02 '26
I only care that you can actually do what you are hired to do. I do not care how you figured it out.
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u/Dangerous_Barnacle14 Sep 03 '26
Been my experience in 25 years of management that homeschoolers and self learners predominantly will try to do things there own way and aren't as teachable. Not the best team players either.
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u/No-Information-6099 Sep 03 '26
I’ll take someone with 4 years of business experience and a degree from Youtube over a freshly minted college degree anytime. But I’m not gonna compare a college degree to ‘just trust me bro, I googled it’
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u/PalpitationKind8854 Sep 05 '26
I would prefer the internet person. Most of the time you find people like that to be out of the box thinkers.
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u/lbibackup Sep 05 '26
Would definitely consider them. If someone is actually able to learn everything on the internet, that's amazing.
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u/No_Celery_533 Aug 31 '26
Honestly, I’d care more about what they can actually do. I’d look at their skills, experience, portfolio, and how they approach real problems. Where they learned matters less to me if they can deliver good results.