Qualifications - What does my Education count for?

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Job applications also tend to ask "highest education recieved" asking what type of degree...  

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Canadian Arts Diploma

 

The ones I Recollect ask about High School Graduation.

[NikLR 13,220]

It's probably been a while since you've filled out a job application which are rarely on paper anymore and have drop down menus for answers.   Unfortunately your theory about what to put doesn't work in reality. 

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Then you click on the one closest.

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You may want to get your transcripts and diploma evaluated by a foreign credential evaluation agency, like World Education Services. I did that with mine. 

[mallafri76 1,012]

What kind of jobs are you looking for? If a Bachelor degree is a requirement for the jobs you're looking for, either get a BA or look for other jobs. If a Bachelor degree is not a requirement then you're overthinking this.

 

Usually, the application gives you options so you choose whatever's closest to your educational level. You don't have a Bachelor degree so you choose whatever is the option before the BA. 

 

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Ok, Im American , in community  college now , getting a two year transfer degree and I'm  55. And this is my opinion. Ive done something similar to you. I got an Aircraft mechanics license in high school by diploma,  but now they do an Associates degree in real universities . .  And most countries besides the US have more requirements to work on aircraft then the US. I cant get an aircraft mechanics job in Canada or  England as they are called engineers. And the education level is higher .   Engineers in the US are 4 plus year degrees. I don't believe they let you work on aircraft with a high school diploma . I was awarded the most technically advanced mechanic of 75 mechanics at Continental some time ago. inh spite of not having a degree.  My opinion is you have  an equivalent of a minimum, of  roughly an   Associates degree.  But it might not really matter. You have an arts degree which is the easiest one. But it looks to be specialized and you might have much experience. What you describes should be highly desirable in live stage and motion picture industry.    In the US a degree only matters for your first entry level  jobs. If you have experience that will override the degree after that. Keep in mind that Associates degrees are two or three year here too , such as nursing, because you have to do clinicals  which add an year. Was your degree three years because of time constraints or waiting for the hands on stuff. Then its probably two years.

The critical deciding factor in the US is a Bachelors degree is 4 years . An associates degree is mostly two. Or  to three such as nursing. Because your on a waiting list for clinicals.   A technical degree like mine can be anything including an associates degree . But its not. because I got my aircraft license at 17.   I want to say something about accredited classes.  So , all  US universities are using the same accredited classes. So the classes transfer to other universities. And teachers requirements are standard. Who are your classes accredited by and do they transfer. What they transfer too can help you see what the equivalent is. My wife has a teaching degree in China and nothing transfers. She blows me away in Algebra.  

      Some Technical schools such as hair dresser schools and many others  and  some schools such as Spartan school of Aeronautics use separate technical school accredited by another agency . They do not transfer anywhere. So a person could get an Aircraft mechanics license with no degree , and nothing transfers and he can get employed. That's what I did but in high school. . If I want to go to a university to get an associated degree I have to take the requirement for that.  because nothing transfers to real universities. So Im taking an associates of  applied arts in   business degree not related to Aviation.   That CAN transfer into a 4 year university. Because of those schools not being accredited,  those schools do not have to use teachers who meet university 4 year minimum teaching requirements. Spartan can employ highly experienced aircraft mechanics and pilots, or no experience, or someone  in between with a two year degree, and  who teach with no degree at all.  Its a choice. I was a poor guy who got an aircraft license and gained from it. So I wont bash them schools, Even though they get many students, and foreign students ,  who learn the hard way, when they are finished  that their classes transfer nowhere. But they can work on planes in the US. And they wished they knew that first.

I think that field you are in is not going to care what degree you have but they will like that training you have.   (it was theatre production - set design, building, props, management etc). It looks like an advanced  technical degree to me. on paper ,  that very well might transfer into an Associates degree.