Does it require a college degree to be the check-in clerk at a hotel?
And here is a dirty little secret about employers: they don’t want to be educators. ( rbg81)
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So?...Employers do train?..Anyway,...I’ve had this discussion with my husband. He is very dismissive my my ideas. His comment is, “Employers demand college degrees because they can!”
My husband ( Ph.D. in chemistry) worked for one of the world’s largest chemical industries. In my father’s era is was rare for this company to have Ph.D. chemists. A B.S. was enough. This company, and others, trained its own chemists during the first half of the 20th century. Yes, they invested a tremendous amount of resources in their employees but there was a hook to keep them in the company. Retirement benefits and vacation time didn’t start to grow significantly until they had worked with the same company for 20 or 25 years (or more).
In my clinic, resumes that showed only a high school diploma went straight into the trash can. I only interviewed those with some college attendance. I did this for jobs that in my mother's day would have required only a sound 6th grade education. Why?
Answer: Because I had wasted far too much time interviewing high school graduates who were nearly illiterate and almost completely innumerate! Some college attendance did show that I was likely to have interview with someone with some chance of being trainable.
Also...Even employees with previous work experience in our field required training. The computer software varies from clinic to clinic and it takes time to learn a new system.