I have a bachelor’s degree from mexico, it is on spannish, but how could I have it valued? I understand that it is up to the companies discretion if wether they’re impressed or not, but I just simply don’t know how to proceed. Can I just have it translated and use it? Or do I need some form of equivalency? Please, I need to get a job, and I just simply don’t want to do high school all over again.
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Medical professionals from other countries can’t practice medicine here. I knew a brain surgeon from India selling cars in the US.
It would depend on the company. Good luck.
Degrees just get you an interview. Doesn’t even have to be a related degree. It just shows you know how to follow directions.
There’s no way to answer this without knowing so many things like the college you went to, the degree, and what kind of job you’re looking for. How are you planning on moving here? Why would you have to go back to high school?
One method I’ve seen amongst coworkers who have foreign degrees is to get a higher degree at a US institution. So for this scenario, I’ve seen people get Master’s degrees at whatever US university would take them and that essentially “values” your undergraduate degree. I’m not familiar with any Mexican universities, but unless a foreign school has name recognition (like Cambridge, Oxford, maybe McGill depending on the hiring manager) it won’t be as valued as a US degree. Good luck!
What people usually do is put on your resume what you degree is, where you got it from and in what field. I would probably use the english term for the field.
Rarely will anyone ask for a transcript, but if they do want one, you will contact your school to send it to them and a staff member who speaks spanish will review it.
There really is nothing else for you to do.
If you are in a field that requires licencing, you may need to take the test again. But those usually are things you study in grad school not as an undergrad.
I think the key is to really make sure you’re not misrepresenting yourself.
You refer to having a bachelors degree, but then also say it’s like highschool and you don’t want to have to get a GED.
So when you’re applying to jobs, are you going to be telling them you have a bachelors degree, which is telling them you’ve graduated college/university? Because if that’s not the case, and they find out you’ve misrepresented, that’s not gonna be good for you.
The first question is what kind of job are you applying for? A lot of jobs don’t really explicitly require specific degrees. When I worked in IT and as a web developer, more than half my co-workers had degrees in non-computer subjects or didn’t have any at all. In the case of high skill fields like engineering or medicine, degrees are mandatory but for most office jobs they aren’t.
Most employers are just looking to see that you have one in a related field or one that could be useful to theirs. Even a degree from a university in Mexico is better than no college degree. Just put what it is on your resume. I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life and none of them have ever bothered to check with my university about my degree.
There are international degree transcription services, if you needed to prove it exists and the value of it. You might need this for professional licensing or to apply to graduate programs.
Most companies don’t care to verify, and the skills are what really matters.
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OP, back up for a minute. In the US, a bachelors degree is the first university degree after high school. It takes approximately four years, and one is about 22 years of age when earned (all other things being equal). What you are describing is not the equivalent of an American bachelors degree; it seems to be closer to an Associates (two year) degree, instead.
If you give us more information (the exact name of the degree and where it’s from), we can offer more help. Put it all in Spanish, so none of the meaning or nuance gets lost.
Get in touch with NACES or AICE. They can help you get the appropriate translations done that will let you write an accurate resume in English and get the degree and the classes you took to successfully pass a hiring background check that many jobs will perform during hiring. It should cost a few hundred dollars.
Is it a high school diploma or is it a bachelor’s or associates? What is it in?
Looking at the responses, it sounds like a HS diploma
I’m not super familiar w/ educational entrance requirements but I’d assume that they’d have a system to figure out it’s equivalent. I highly doubt you’d have to return to high school (unless you’re actually like 15 years old, and can’t pass any exams).
As far as work goes they rarely care. They might do a background check which is usually on their end to find out everything. Rarely do employers require you to provide the documentation. You still have to provide the information like years attended, and stuff like that. Realistically there are a lot of jobs that don’t even require a high school education. They don’t pay well, and aren’t very good but they do exist.
How is it both ‘basically just high school’ and ‘undergraduate’? I understand different countries have different descriptions and qualifications for the same degrees, but you’re contradicting yourself left and right.
It may be better if you found alums from your school who’ve come to the US and asked what they did?