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45% Of US Companies Plan To Axe Bachelor's Degree Requirements
The Daily Mail ^ | 11/29/23 | Neirin Gray Desai

Posted on 11/30/2023 8:19:36 AM PST by Enlightened1

Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate Bachelor's degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.

And 55 percent said they'd already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 US employers, carried out in November.

It comes after Walmart, IBM, Accenture, Bank of America and Google announced similar plans.

The survey found that the same employers that have already eliminated Bachelor's degree requirements were far more likely to continue doing so.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-12806053/companies-ax-college-bachelors-degree-requirements-walmart.html

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bachelorsdegree; college; companies; education; requirements
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1 posted on 11/30/2023 8:19:36 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Is it dumbing down? Or is it a method of avoiding the "woke"?

Could be both.

2 posted on 11/30/2023 8:21:54 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Enlightened1

The High School “diploma” today is equal to a 6th Grade “graduation” certificate a few decades back.

Companies are going to be hiring complete ignoramuses who cannot read, write or cipher (channeling Jethro).

I wonder why they are doing this. Hmmm...it’s a mystery.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 8:22:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Enlightened1

My worthless associates degree lives!!!


4 posted on 11/30/2023 8:23:07 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Enlightened1
'A person's educational credentials are not the only indicators of success, so we advanced retarded our approach to hiring to focus on skills, experiences and potential,' CEO of Accenture North America, Jimmy Etheredge, told the outlet.

Fixed.

5 posted on 11/30/2023 8:24:16 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: Enlightened1

Wise move. Today, a BA issued by most US universities means you’ve been indoctrinated for 4 years by the communist faculty.


6 posted on 11/30/2023 8:24:44 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Enlightened1

Today’s BA grads are less educated than yesterday’s high school dropouts so why care about a diploma?


7 posted on 11/30/2023 8:24:48 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Enlightened1

Been saying it for years...we need more apprentice programs and/or trade schools.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 8:26:01 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Salman

I’m thinking it’s to hire the people coming illegally over the border.


9 posted on 11/30/2023 8:26:17 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Many college graduates can barely read as well these days. What they should be doing is avoiding people under 40. LOL.


10 posted on 11/30/2023 8:26:38 AM PST by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: SaxxonWoods
See Post #3. That's exactly why we need the ones with the BA/BS degree so at least we know they function at high school level. Today's HS grads are a joke waiting to unravel.
11 posted on 11/30/2023 8:28:42 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: Enlightened1

Too many kids coming out of college are utterly unprepared for the workplace. Worse the indoctrination baggage = employees who cause constant trouble over contrived nonsense. Who wants employees who come crying every time they hear something they don’t like?


12 posted on 11/30/2023 8:29:29 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Enlightened1

We don’t need any steenkin employees with STEM degrees cause we got AI software.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 8:31:41 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Sacajaweau

Exactly. Those in “skilled trades” like electricians, plumbers, home-builders, etc. are doing very well. Our granddaughter is in “nursing school” which is a skilled trade/profession.


14 posted on 11/30/2023 8:32:42 AM PST by GAgal
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I guess corporations now have lawyers that have figured a way around Griggs vs Duke Power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

Why did it take so long?


15 posted on 11/30/2023 8:32:59 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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Did any of you read to the final paragraph?

A report published by the Burning Glass institute last year described the growing trend of cutting degrees as a requirement as 'an essential step in reducing inequity in the American labor market.'

Seems part of the motive is that blacks are less likely to have a college degree, so some companies are replacing B.A. requirements with how one contributes to a company's diversity.

16 posted on 11/30/2023 8:34:36 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: 4Runner

While your take seems logical, I’m suspicious students are worse off after college these days. I graduated in the 70’s and it took me about 10 years to throw off the commie indoctrination.


17 posted on 11/30/2023 8:34:45 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Enlightened1

45% Of US companies switch to McDonalds hiring plan if they are warm hire them.


18 posted on 11/30/2023 8:35:31 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Salman
I can tell you from personal experience that even in my own STEM field that requires a bachelor of science degree as a bare minimum for professional licensure, you’re better off hiring a sharp high school graduate as an intern than a college graduate who is likely to be highly defective by the age of 22.
19 posted on 11/30/2023 8:37:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Salman
Companies can't dumb down without killing productivity. What they can do is avoid useless Woke degrees and the people who seek/have them, pay people less, and educate/train their own people to meet their needs.

Online resources like KhanAcademy.org can help train people in math skills much more quickly, more effectively, and less expensively than colleges anyway.

If a company wants some of its people to have degrees in certain applicable subjects, it can send them to night school (even online).

This is a great model that has been a long time coming.

20 posted on 11/30/2023 8:38:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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