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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Adult daycare graduates with a $180K bill, due monthly after graduating. Not smart at all......
From my experience in working in HR for 35 years for a manufacturing company, both at the plant level and in corporate, I think it's a smart move.
At the plant level, the only degrees that should be required are in engineering or in accounting. All the other office jobs in the plant can be learned on the job.
As for shop supervisors and department managers, the best supervisors and managers were promoted from the hourly work force who knew how the various stamping and assembly lines should be run.
The same especially for the skilled trades.
As for my job, I was never promoted due to not having the required degree but my job was task specific, and there is no college educated individual that could do it without spending at least a year working with me.
I administered our UAW pension plan for all the hourly employees and had to work with the pension contracts that spanned over 50 years of constantly changing agreements and the contract bible containing them all.
After 25 years in the plant, corporate consolidated the pension departs from our Philadelphia plant and Detroit plant and brought them to corporate.
During my last 10 years there, I worked for three different managers who had Masters degrees and knew absolutely nothing about what I was doing and constantly coming to me with questions.
There are jobs that require college degrees but anything beyond that is just a waste of time.
Having a masters degree doesn't make you a smart manager.......
Yep. And the average undergrad degree is at the level of an 8th-grade grad from that time.
Some might suggest that an employee in debt could be especially dedicated to the job.
To me...it gives you the ability to pick your choice of a real profession...not just a peon to be put here or there by Corporate.
Makes sense since the longer you’re in college the dumber you get.
I think this is a good thing. . I also think NOT attending college these days shows the level of intelligent of the new generation of candidates. My college degree meant nothing. It did not help me in any of the jobs I got after college.
Will military officers require a BS degree?
“...the average undergrad degree is at the level of an 8th-grade grad from that time.”
Exactly right. The level of knowledge, critical thinking ability, historical knowledge, writing, basic math, etc/ in today’s college grad is absolutely appalling.
Paying less, is the reason.
Information services: 72%
kids learn programming from birth
Software: 62%
see above
Finance and insurance: 61%
tellers/etc sure, but no more of those pesky actuarial tables i guess
Construction: 55%
knowing Trig/geometry is half the job...
Healthcare and social assistance: 42%
other than the professional side, highschool jobs
Education: 35%
hell, they aren’t even required to be proficient in their own “field” of teaching...
Heck, after seeing what PA elected for the Senate, this should come as no surprise.
They want to us to hire the people Biden just let in.
It kept you from being looked down upon by all of those highly educated sociology graduates - so there's that. :)
“We don’t need any steenkin employees with STEM degrees cause we got AI software.”
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I suspect that they are dropping the bachelor’s degree requirement for entry level to mid-level management positions since it doesn’t take a BA in business to manage a retail store or fast food restaurant. The need for STEM degrees will not be going away anytime soon.
The slide into Idiocracy continues...
ANOTHER LEGACY OF PARTICIPATION TROPHIES
It is probably so they can find workers. Many jobs that once did not require a bachelor’s degree now do. This move seems to be a change for the better. Especially if more high schools bring back courses of study aimed at being able to get a job after being graduated. Programs like beginning business or medical assistant or heck just plain old secretary.
Nope. A different set of fake papers is required for that.
No. The article later on says there is still a requirement to demonstrate the skills necessary to fill the position.
What is being eliminated is the requirement to spend four years and a considerable amount of money just to be able add “BA” or “BS” to their resume so they can get a check in the box when being screened for an entry level position that doesn’t really require it.
The downstream impact to this transition will be an intensified demand that students graduating high school are really able to confidently read, write and do arithmetic at grade level. Education professionals are not going to like that.
Also career preparation community college-level courses might be significantly expanded to serve as a backstop to public school system shortcomings/failures and as a job training /applicant screening measure. To some extent, community colleges already do this with certificates and specific industry-focused curricula. What can be envisioned is an expansion of the demand for the general skills courses in the three “R”s since many office/retail jobs will train a generally literate employee on the specifics of their position.
If not for that case, I might not have bothered with college.
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