Corporations ignore your college credentials on your resume. Because the colleges have been graduating people based on race, corporations now rely on certifications given and managed by private companies. What a job in Quality? You need a certificate from the ASQC. (It cost plenty to get and maintain. But if you have that you don’t need a college degree.) The same is true for any specific job, like Project Manager.
The demand for college degrees for employment, even in a completely unrelated field, really kicked into gear when employers were restricted from using skills testing. Now it looks like they prefer skills testing by outside organizations over a college degree. What will happen when the accreditation groups get overwhelmed by wokeness and their certification becomes worthless?
The American Society for Quality dropped the “C” (Control) decades ago. The professional certification program continues & uses computer-based tests instead of pencil and paper.
Problem is that Corporations, while “ignoring college credentials,” also often REQUIRE them as a threshold issue. If they ignore such credentials it’s because, by requiring them for a certain position, they become meaningless
Same is true for many government positions.
HR departments substituted a college degree for taking responsibility for correct interviewing and making judgement calls regarding candidates.
This “boiler plate” requirement served to dilute the content and value of a College Degree even as colleges started to lower acceptance and graduation standards in the name of what was to become DEI.
The entire process put culture and education in a death spiral.
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