Nobody cares about your degree

This may be a tough message for many young Engineers.
I talk with Product Development Engineers every day, many of them are Millennials. Many want to tell me about their wonderful degrees and their impressive Masters programs or their MBA they are currently pursuing.
I see notes like these trying to impress a hiring Engineering Director at an aggressive growing orthopedic company. (actual note).

"I am happy to discuss my other experiences in biomechanics at the University of Greatness, my peer-reviewed paper on gait rehab, the award I won for human factors system design at NASA, or m...