When Lafawwn Davis grew up, he hated that he would become an astronaut, a doctor or a teacher … She dreamed of becoming the CEO of seven companies at once.
This ambition inspired a strong work ethics that powered Davis to workforce at the age of 14 when she took the first work in the black florist in her hometown of San Jose, California. And as soon as she started working, she never stopped.
Despite his strong work ethics, Davis – which in May 2024 landed on his current work as the main people and the leading sustainability – HR planted that her career was not always smooth, partly because she did not have a bachelor's degree.
“I was told that because I had no higher education, there were some roles that I couldn't go. I was a believer that no matter what the description of the work said if I felt like I could do it anyway,” Davis HR Brew said.
But it is not the only HR for without a bachelor's degree. According to HR Brew/Harris survey conducted in September, only 31% of people in the US achieved. Approximately 12% has a collaborator title, while 30% has a high school diploma and 8% less. Meanwhile, he has 18% postgraduate title.
Davis shared with HR cooking as she climbed on a company ladder without a four -year university degree.
Career journey. After graduation, Davis enrolled in San José State University. She said, however, that she was skipping class to go to work, and decided to get out and join Corporate America. During the DotCom era she worked in the startup roles, but when the bubble burst in 2000, she lost her job. And without the bachelor title, Davis said it was turned away from new opportunities.
So in 22, with a newborn, with whom she cares, she was difficult to move home with her parents. However, she was still determined to re -join the company's workforce and fulfill her childhood dream to become a executive executive.
During these years after DotCom Davis, she said she had a hard time based on her network of corporate contacts that helped her find a job as an office for demands, executive assistant and head chief. Every role was taught by a new administrator or people's skill. Then, in 2005, she received a big break – she was hired as a program specialist on GoogleWhere she worked for eight years and ended her term of office as a business partner HR for diversity and integration.
“I really focus on.”[ed] On many programs and initiatives in the field of human resources and how diversity, justice, inclusion we are woven throughout the process of employees' life cycle, ”she said. I felt like I was actually embarking on a career.”
After Google Davis, he said she played the “Tech Company Roulette” game, which was between the experiences of the DEI employees and the roles in companies including Yahoo! eBayand PayPal. In 2019, almost 15 years in her HR career, she actually landed as vice president of diversity, integration and belonging.
The first skills are the future.Davis said she was lucky that she had so many opportunities to penetrate the corporate America without a bachelor's degree, and wanted hiring the skills that her employers practiced were more common.
“The first skill movement is not an anti-voltage level at all … It is rather that the college title is simply not the only way to acquire skills and helps people and societies understand what it means to hire skills,” she said.
Davis said she was “ashamed” that she had no four -year -old college title. Nowadays, she likes to share her story and uses it to inform her work in fact, where he tries to facilitate the application process for candidates by encouraging society to accept skills.
“One of the things I said when I really came, it was:” We have to drink our own champagne … Whether we ask other companies, we have to do it ourselves, “she said, adding that he actually abandoned her university degree from her business contributions in 2022 and is called a fair chance of employer.
“I will not be the CEO of seven consecutive societies at the same time,” she said, but “becoming part of the C-Suite, who knew on the way that I did not have a university degree, was a great space for others to know that they would do the same.”
This message was written by Mikael Cohen and was Originally published according to HR Brew.
This story was originally listed on Fortune.com
