Posted on 12/05/2023 1:23:03 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Employers across a range of industries are dropping a job requirement once considered a ticket to a higher paying job and financial security: a college degree.
Today's tight labor market has led more companies instead to take a more skills-based approach to hiring, as evidenced on job search sites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
"Part of it is employers realizing they may be able to do a better job finding the right talent by looking for the skills or competencies someone needs to do the job and not letting a degree get in the way of that," Parisa Fatehi-Weeks, senior director of environmental, social and governance (ESG) for hiring platform Indeed told CBS MoneyWatch.
The relaxing of high education requirements is in effect serving to correct so-called degree inflation, or when employers increasingly require a college degree for jobs that don't require college-level skills, which has long been the norm in recruiting.
In 2023, the share of jobs on hiring platform ZipRecruiter that listed a bachelor's degree as a requirement dropped to 14.5%, from 18% in 2022.
Prioritizing skills over diplomas
Additionally, 45% of employers surveyed by the firm said they had done away with degree requirements for certain roles over the past year. Seventy-two percent of firms said they prioritize candidates' skills and experience over the diplomas they hold, according to ZipRecruiter.
The opposite trend played out during The Great Recession in the late 2000s, when the share of job postings requiring a bachelor's degree rose from 12% to 20%, according to ZipRecruiter.
The trend is slightly more prevalent among small businesses, with 47% of small and medium-sized businesses more likely to cross a college degree off the list of desired or necessary attributes in a candidate, compared with 35% of larger businesses, according to the ZipRecruiter survey.
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And wait until AI really kicks in and companies can combine the right-out-of-HS trainees with access to company-trained AI systems.
Lowering the bar for illegals.....
These days college degrees have NO indication of intelligence.
In my experience in a STEM field where a B.S. degree is a bare minimum requirement for professional licensure, I have found that the best employees I ever had were high school graduates who started as interns and learned about the working world before they were poisoned by college.
No, it’s just that college degrees used to be a effective tool in identifying individuals who are competent and motivated.
But it is getting less and less useful at weeding out the slackers and idiots.
“..Poorly-educated graduates make for poor, but expensive hires with bad attitudes....”
^THIS^
When all they’re studying these days is wokeism and social justice classes, all they probably end up with the likes of that imbecile broad that put the tranny on the Bud Light can....
Can’t say as I blame em for not hiring these lunatics.
How can you hire unqualified affirmative action types if you have requirements?
And by doing this you skip the endless assaholic DEi woke lectures.
I’d bet these companies don’t offer tuition reimbursement either. ;-)
“Poorly-educated graduates make for poor, but expensive hires with bad attitudes.”
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Along with a bad work ethic and an undeserved sense of entitlement.
“But it is getting less and less useful at weeding out the slackers and idiots.”
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In large part due to the Left destroying the education system, like with everything else they touch.
Agreed. In the software industry, particularly when involving complex software design and not just drawing up fancy screens, if interviewing applicants for a junior programmer (no experience) a BS in CS or EE was a must. But always without exception the best of those workers were the ones who worked full time while in college even if it meant taking 6 or 8 years to complete their BS. Their experience doing grunt work in their younger years made them better code jockeys later (as was the effect on me). And fortunately for me in Alabama decades ago when I got a BS in CS, the CS courses and math courses didn't have the woke mess -- only the liberal arts "core" courses had that and most of us CS students slept through those courses anyway. Not once did any of my CS or math instructors bring up any of that mess. Of the few times a student tried to bring it up to show off his liberal bona fides, my CS and math instructors shut them up and told them we didn't have time for that mess, sometimes saying the liberal student should apologize to all the other students for interfering with the education the students were paying for.
It’s more important to not look at the degree, but to look at what course of education the degree represents...
Probably value workers that show up and actually work.
Nor do they require job seekers to have a legal right to be present in the U.S., much the legal right to be employed in the U.S..
Absolutely agree
STEM plus a work ethic are irreplaceable. A lot of people want the pay that a decade of education and experience bring; they just don’t want to put in the effort.
Unfortunately, I have seen H-1B Visa employees given preference over US citizens in the tech market (engineering) because employers don’t have to pay Social Security taxes on H-1B or other incentives that make foreign workers cheaper to keep than Americans.
Being an Engineer used to mean a higher salary; today engineers make far less than they did 50 years ago (comparatively)
Actually, in a counter-intuitive way, they still do.
People who go to college nowadays lose their intelligence, their potential...and their sanity.
From what I have seen coming out of college who can blame them.
That’s right. I’m not so sure they ever did to begin with.
Exactly.
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