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Originally Posted by FatFreeGoodness
I disagree that a minor or even a major “suggests experience” in that area. For example, someone with a brand new BA in electrical engineering knows the math and the formulas, but may well have no experience whatever in the actual assignments that they will get in the workplace. This affects not just their ability to come up with a solution, but even how they approach the work.
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By experience, I didn't mean hands-on experience. I meant experience with the subject matter. For instance, take a business major with an economics minor. For the purposes of my example, assume that our business major has had some real life experience in his major (work-study, internship, whatever). As an employer, you're comfortable that this person would be able to perform wel enough in his job because of the experience that he has. The additional minor in econ may suggest to you that this prospective employee would be better able to apply economic models and theories to business practices than the average business major who took Econ 101 and nothing else. Is it definite? No.
On the other hand, it would be a good idea to take classes or minor in something that directly complements your major and future job. I already have a few such classes planned. Will I be able to brag about them? Not directly, at least not without sounding like a prat. But I'll honestly be able to say "yes, I have experience with that". And that can't hurt.
Then again, I'm only a freshman in college. Maybe I have rose-colored hippy glasses glued to my eyes and have yet to get punched in the face by cold reality.
