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.”
Political hacks in Massachusetts are a key part of state government. How could it possibly function without the nephew of some state rep being an on call state employee who earns $250,000 in overtime per year?
I cannot believe I am defending this turd of a Massachusetts governor but in this case—lol....
One of the most common useless expensive college degrees is social work (and related fields). The state is doing good by not requiring wasteful college degrees in that field.
Social workers are going to learn the job the hard way—either way.
Yeah, I can see where this is going
I am thinking this is total BS. States have civil service hiring practices that have extensive education and experience requirements that is taken into account when hiring. People have to pass tests and be interviewed by a group of no nothings before being hired for non salaried jobs
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.
The future looks so bright for Taxachusetts. Not.
The approach is to have a minority of workers at a certain level do the skill part of the job but pay all of them at that level the same. The smart ones will slow down their productivity.
It is like in college, they switched to team assignments where they grouped students to complete team projects. That way the dumb ones can get good grades and pass and be “qualified” for STEM degrees, but they don’t really have the knowledge or horsepower.
MA also has walking upright as optional.
This is a good thing. You need a college degree to be a doctor or an engineer. You don’t need one to be some faceless bureaucrat.
Back when I graduated from high school (1973), it was thought that only the top third of your class should go to college.
The second third should maybe consider a community college, trade or business school.
The bottom third should enlist or go directly to work and get on the job training.
Now college has been dumbed down to the point that there are so many useless degrees and institutions of higher learning competing for even the dredges that everybody should go.
Finally retired myself last year and went to my 50th class reunion. There was one kid from the bottom third who was clearly doing well. Buff, well-dressed and looking younger than most of us. I asked him what he'd been doing.
He told me that while us college kids were slaving away at jobs that paid in the $2 to $4/hour range (guilty), he got a job hanging sheetrock with a construction crew that paid $12. Nobody liked doing the mudding and taping because it was a dirty job. He volunteered because it paid the same and was easier on his back. He learned the business well enough to start his own and things just improved from there.
Over the years, the written exam was dismissed and then so was the requirement for any kind of a degree. "DEI" was not a term of art at the time, but "hiring goals" were, and they were met my some beyond-less-than-incompetent mouth breathers.
Even for this liberal place of employment, the experiment was a grand fail, and quietly abandoned. The clericals-turned professionals showed little interest in technical knowledge upgrading, and were necessarily assigned to out-of-the-way, do-nothing jobs that hopefully the public would not encounter.
Absolutely true. The jobs were done just fine in the 1960’s when a very small percent of people held degrees. I’d love to starve the over priced colleges.
“If your standards are too high, lower your standards!”
ALWAYS WORKS!
More DEI please! as if we cant communicate with the idiots we have now in government when we need to
Looking for a job wit the gubmint?
Self identify as a trans illegal!
oh..it will means they think they can put it all in the hands of AI..as per some wizard of a consultant
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2024/02/so-you-think-your-government-sucks-shit.html
Massachusetts leaders praised the move as important for establishing an ‘inclusive’ workforce.
Translation : Cheap labor aka illegals who can’t read or
write English.
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