As a psychology teacher, I often have contact with business owners and management. I also asked them whether academic qualifications or abilities are more important.
They all said that which one is more important depends on the situation. The relationship between the two complements each other. When no one knows you, academic qualifications often represent ability. But if you use a high degree of education to enter a certain platform, but do not have the ability to adapt, it will often make it difficult for you, and you will not develop as well as those with low education.
For example, you have no academic qualifications, but you have rich work experience, excellent professional knowledge, and have made very good achievements. These achievements are all written on your resume. When the employer looks at your resume, it will be attracted by your work performance, ignore academic issues, and give you an interview opportunity.
After entering the interview, if you are not admitted, it has little to do with academic qualifications. The reasons for not admitting you may be that your grades are not as dazzling as they imagined, your expression skills are lacking, your personal image does not fit in with the company culture, etc.
For another example, two young people apply for a job together. They both have similar work experience and similar conditions in all aspects. So at this time, how does the employer choose? It depends on whose academic qualifications are more in line with the needs of the company. Because people's first impression is that academic qualifications often represent potential, that is, your potential to grow in your future work ability.
Academic qualifications are a stepping stone, and work ability is also a stepping stone. It depends on whether you have it or not. If you have both, you will definitely become the target of competition for employers; if you only have one of them, it depends on which one the employer values ??more.
From a long-term perspective, ability is always the most important. People with only academic qualifications but no ability will find it difficult to achieve good results even if they enter the workplace.