For which alt-ac jobs is prestige important?

[Catria]

Suppose that you want nothing to do with academia or cannot work in academia. (The consensus here with respect to academia is, in a nutshell: in humanities or social sciences, you would be lucky to find an higher-ed employer where prestige is considered "just a job skill like another", other than maybe a community college, whereas in STEM disciplines, higher-ed employers seem to treat prestige mostly as simply just one job skill like another, but in K-12 it may not even be a consideration) But nevertheless you know that all alt-ac jobs are neither open to interview you for this, nor will all of them care about prestige.

And, of course, even though not many here dream of practicing law, even less in the current state of the legal job market, law is an area where prestige is considered at least as some sort of job skill.

I understand that each field has different prestige standards, so please, be specific about the field you're talking about. And also regions may be more prestige-sensitive for a given field than others.

East Asian countries (Korea, Japan, China to a lesser extent) have long been considered areas where prestige is a job skill that can often trump more substantive job skills, whereas prestige is relevant to a handful few non-academic jobs in Canada at most.

[Eigen]

You're asking an amazingly broad question to which there are many, many correct answers. 

Alt-academic jobs, by nature, are hard to quantify in terms of generalizations. If you have some ideas about what kind of Alt-ac jobs you're looking for, that would help narrow it down quite a bit.

[juilletmercredi]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The prestige of your graduate program/university isn't a "job skill"; it's simply an attribute of one aspect of your profile.

It sounds like you might be asking whether or not prestige matters, and the answer is that it depends. It depends on the sector, it depends on the employer, it even depends on the hiring manager who reviews your resume. Even within the people involved in hiring for a specific job there might be differences of opinion with respect to how important prestige is.