[Grammar] Your employment prospects would be much better if you finished your degree.

[newkeenlearner]

I don't know what the differences are between sentence 1) and 2) ?

1)Your employment prospects would be much better if you finished your degree.


2)our employment prospects would have been much better if you had finished your degree.



Source for study:
https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/2nd-conditional.html
https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/3rd-conditional.html

 

[emsr2d2]

In the first, the person is currently studying for a degree but perhaps they are thinking about giving up.
In the second, we know that the person started a degree but failed to graduate.

 

[Tdol]

And if you say Your employment prospects will be much better if you finish your degree,you think that there's a decent chance that the person will finish their degree in the future.