Career Help and Advice

Depending on what you do, and what you're applying for. Most private sector jobs want to know what you have to offer, and unfortunately do not usually care about anyone's record of accomplishment. After I got my Master's degree, I found that simply describing what I did came off as arrogant to others. I know it's counter-intuitive, and it made me very angry for years, but that's how it works, unfortunately. Look to the future, not the past. What skills do you have that nobody else has, and can it make the business money? That's all they care about.

I do not know much about university jobs. If you apply at a university again, I supposed your record of accomplishment would be more important. I've heard politics are tough in education.