better situation. The professional ladder is there; one needs to know the steps to climb it with advantages and benefits.The big problem is that the professional ladder has limited and narrow steps. Not everyone fits on them. Even if more steps are built, the ladder increases in height and stratification follows accordingly, unlike what is preached by all those who attribute to workers formal education and skills the leveling of knowledge needed to improve gains in the labor market. For them, it suffices to attend to basic, secondary and higher education and/or seek professional qualification to get good jobs and wages.Many are left out in the quest for positions, including, in general, those with higher occupational and wage returns. Most applicants do not end up having access to higher steps of the professional ladder, and survive in low paid jobs and work requiring little or no qualifications. They remain there for a long time waiting for better opportunities.It is not individual attributes, including educational and professional, that make a difference for workers in general. For a minority, yes, it works, especially in more modern sectors and occupations, typical of advanced technologies. Those who reach the top or stand out are the most fortunate. However, what goes for the remaining workers, the silent majority, is the hierarchical combination of previously designed levels of occupations and associated levels of remuneration in the structure of business organizations.This is the picture of the labor market in Brazil with respect to the income distribution among individuals. The same can be observed among families and households[29]. Formal and professional education serves for many jobs and work, but not for everyone, as necessary conditions for hiring and promotion.Indeed, it is necessary for workers to be able to read, write and understand what they read, and to know how to operate and monitor equipment and machines and perform their operational tasks. However, the two types of education are not sufficient conditions. The market decides what is sufficient. It determines the differences in income and occupation through the prevailing wage scales and occupational structures in business organizations.6.1.5 Education and income: information, comments and dataThe role of education in improving the lives and work of individuals and families is, no doubt, unchallenged. Knowledge in general is necessary to understand the world around us, get along with others, point at and open up paths. But knowledge and specific know-how oriented to professional practice, whether in Academia or in unskilled jobs, or in providing freelance services, is different.Regarding the dichotomy between school and work, what schools should teach, to whom, and what work requires, a lot has already been written[30]. What do human resources professionals have to say about the dichotomy? They deal directly with the intermediation between job and work seekers and companies. They know exactly what applicants are seeking and what job openings in companies require. Hence it makes sense to resort to them to learn a little more about the school and work dichotomy.Section 6.1.3 above referred to the questionnaire sent to human resources professionals with questions that sought to capture