Posted on 02/04/2024 4:34:33 PM PST by george76
Governor Maura Healey signed the order, titled 'Instituting Skill-Based Hiring Practices,' to 'reduce structural barriers that result in inequities in pay and access to employment.'
Some Massachusetts leaders praised the move as important for establishing an 'inclusive' workforce.
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Massachusetts will no longer require a college degree for a large majority of government jobs due to a new state executive order intended to make the commonwealth more “inclusive.”
Governor Maura Healey signed the order, titled “Instituting Skill-Based Hiring Practices,” on Jan 25. The document asserts that “skills-based hiring practices will strengthen the Commonwealth’s workforce, increase access to quality jobs for nontraditional candidates with varied backgrounds and work experiences, and reduce structural barriers that result in inequities in pay and access to employment.”
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It also contends that such practices will build a “workforce that is representative of the diversity of the state.”
The guideline directs hiring managers to “consider the full set of competencies that candidates bring to the job beyond traditional education.”
It prohibits a minimum level of education from being included in job listings “unless the Human Resources Division determines that a particular level of education is necessary to perform the job after completing a job analysis.”
Candidates will now be assessed based on “their skills from real-world experience, military service, apprenticeship and certificate programs, internships, and other on-the-job programs.”
“This Executive Order directs our administration to focus on applicants’ skills and experiences, rather than college credentials,” Healey said in an address announcing the new guidelines. “It will expand our applicant pool and help us build a more inclusive and skilled workforce than ever before.”
Several state labor and education leaders issued statements in support of the order.
Massachusetts AFL-CIO President and CEO Chrissy Lynch applauded the governor for what she called an “inclusive workforce strategy.”
Western New England University President Robert Johnson stated that the order will help in “breaking down unnecessary barriers and creating equal opportunities” and will build “a more inclusive workforce.”
On one hand this looks positive. But I can also see where this could go very, very wrong.
This is actually a good thing.
Young people have been paying a “stupid tax” by borrowing money for college when they do not belong there.
Now they can become incompetent and useless state workers without getting in debt to do so.
;-)
Illegals and the unqualified will benefit
So, figure 5-10 years the state will be flooded with many more incompetent managers than they already have—promoted rather than fired.
About time, most jobs don’t require a degree and most Bachelors can be replaced with industry tests.
Stupid is as stupid does!
Under “gay” Maura Healey, Massachusetts—once one of the most educated states in the Union—will now lead the country in incompetence and stupidity!
Mass. is on the path to DIE.
Absolutely correct. Unless you’re going into a hard science, college is a complete waste.
I'm thinking the gov't response to Covid, except the gov't officials responsible for the fiasco won't be required to have degrees.
This might not be a bad idea in the private sector, but how do you fire civil servants who can't or won't do their jobs?
A LOT of government jobs don’t require college degrees, IMO. It would be good to get back to the basics of ‘service,’ and correspondingly less costly salaries for the majority of drone workers.
However, that won’t happen because MA is not looking for efficiency; they are looking for more jobs for blacks, Hispanics and other peoples of color. It’s just another more subtle form of quotas, affirmative action and the hip, new replacement - DEI.
More DEI BS....So, Mass state gov’t won’t have the best & brightest. Not even close.
If you go to college and don’t get a certification or license as a result, you probably wasted your money.
Yes, but this is Massachusetts we're talking about. The degree won't be replaced with industry tests. It will be replaced with party cards and political tests. The democrats are restoring an unrestricted spoils system.
Except that unlike the spoils systems of olden days, the new hires will be tenured. Massachusetts will end up with civil service job protections without civil service entry requirements. When they eventually remember why the civil service system was instituted in the first place, it will be too late. The hacks can't be fired.
That almost guarantees that the new hires will be far more intelligent...
I don’t mind reducing the college degree requirement for those with the needed skill set, particularly for tech and complex skill jobs but to reduce it for inclusion sake, no way. Let United hire them as pilots. I understand they are looking for flight dummies for their rainbow cockpit coalition.
“Governor Maura Healey signed the order, titled ‘Instituting Skill-Based Hiring Practices,’ to ‘reduce structural barriers that result in inequities in pay and access to employment.’”
Go mow a lawn Healey,
Much easier to rack up the overtime on details watching some guys dig a trench with a coffee in your hand.
It's not about "inequities" or any nonsense as that. The truth is that governments are not competitive in the talent market.
Government can get two types of employees to fill these positions; recent college graduates who need a job out of college and will move on in two or three years, or those who are willing to work a few more years after retiring from private industry.
The government doesn't want to pay pensions so in addition to encouraging turnover, for decades they've been outsourcing work previously done by government employees.
This is just the next step in such decline where they'll fill the ranks with even lesser qualified, including illegal aliens who have no diplomas or degrees.
You don’t need a degree to give drivers license tests or sign people up for gubmint cheese. Local government jobs require higher skills but the only requirement is to win an election.
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