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.
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.
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,
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.
Yeah, I can see where this is going
Colleges graduate illiterates. Maybe MA is looking for people that can pass a skills test.
No doubt true that many jobs never really needed a college degree, and the degree requirement was just a winnowing device. But it’s also hard to believe that NINETY PER CENT of state jobs don’t require some show of maturity and competence, as evidenced by a degree.
A positive development that will hasten the end of the administratively-bloated scamversity.
Seems like this is a workaround to the end of Affirmative Action.