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not really. i hire in IT. most applicants we get are not remotely qualified and have zero real experience. then if you give them a helpdesk position, they get pissed off they aren't getting paid big bucks and have the senior admin creds their uni degree told them they deserve. they dont' want to work their way up like the rest of us did because they were told their 'education' makes them an 'expert' rather than a total beginner that they really are.
getting a degree in anything doesn't mean you get senior level pay and creds. but the uni programs like to kids and tell them they will be making 150K to start. They will be making 150K after 10-20 years of working, maybe.
Our starting salary is like 70K. about half what people think it should be. most applicants don't even know how to use command line tools or other very basic tasks. their knowledge is all largely conceptual and very little of is is practical.