That makes certification the way of the future as far as education goes.
Diversity (non-white) is the number one skill they’re looking for evidently.
It’s always been skills over pedigree. I never even got a bachelors, the word-of-mouth network kept me employed for 30 years in engineering and management positions. Had a couple of degreed co-workers who resented it, but so it goes.
(It ain’t bragging if you can do it.)
I use IQ test.
So corporations will place greater demands on their talented, non-diverse hires.
Change won’t happen overnight. Paradigm shifts never do.
That statement is only true when circumstances permit a slow paradigm shift. Change actually happens at the speed of need.
For example, during WWII, changes in skills and jobs occurred immediately because people and institutions either changed or battles were lost and people died.
The catalyst for change at the present time is the speed of technological development. Companies and employees (and hiring practices) change to keep up with technological, engineering, and analytical systems development or their competition wins.
I guess that today’s hiring is realizing that 10 years of experience is very different from one year of experience repeated 10 times. Of course every ‘woke’ HR department works to negate this very important difference. To them experience of a candidate is way down the list of requirements.
As it should be.
My 9th Grade education has garnered me a $150k+ a year job...
I sometimes wonder what a College Degree would have netted me...
I know a Marshall Scholar with an extremely high IQ, who is so liberal she can’t think objectively…
Nice young lady, but her high iq has little impact on critical thinking.
Since every HR dept is infested with activists change is impossible.
THIS is what should happen in politics.
I ran an IT shop for several years.
Every candidate claimed to have a fantastic skill set. A written test proved 85% were dangerously incompetent.
I don’t know about employers as much, but the ‘skills’ that will be needed in the US, as the US Dollar no longer rules the world (thanks to our idiotic ‘sanctions’ on Russia), will be much more in the vocational area, rather than the paper-pushing area that dominates our economy now. In other words, survival skills.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment tests (when used as a decisive factor in employment decisions) that are not a "reasonable measure of job performance," regardless of the absence of actual intent to discriminate. Since the aptitude tests involved, and the high school diploma requirement, were broad-based and not directly related to the jobs performed, Duke Power's employee transfer procedure was found by the Court to be in violation of the Act.
There’s still too many employers that require a bachelor’s degree as a prerequisite for a position.
It’s not that the degree is required for the position, it is just used to pare down the number of applications.
In the programming world, we look for people who can self-teach. I learned 2 languages in school but only used 1 but I have used 15 languages in my career. There is nothing more useless than a coder who won’t learn. H1B’s have lots of schooling and experience that cannot be verified but they will often refuse to learn anything that won’t help their career track.
Probably 5% of jobs “require” degrees. When high schools stopped educating students to high school level, the generic college degree was substituted as a requirement to weed out the unteachable - but it means far less than it used to in the new Woke World.
Hiring smart high school graduates and training them from the ground up in the company’s processes and procedures still seems like the smarter move, in most cases. You have to get them before some college teaches them they are priceless. :)