Companies ease the requirements to have a college degree

[BOP]

It's not a new subject, and only time will tell whether or not it's a good thing. Has the pressurization of the need (and the shortage of) blue collar trades people led to an easing of the emphasis of the value of a college degree as more and more people (primarily men) opt out of going to college, in part or on whole?

How much of an impact has the whole DIE thing had as companies try to out-woke one another, and to virtue signal how not whatever they are by not requiring the protected classes to do much of anything in order to get a job - including actually working.

Does the fact that men are skipping college altogether, or dropping out if they do go impacting this trend. If I recall, something like a million more women than men are graduating from college, and the gap between women entering college verses men is widening in statistically significant ways.

 

[SamSpade]

Years ago, my uncle who lived in Reston said that everything there had gone up so much - and his salary hadn't kept up - that he could not afford to buy HIS OWN HOUSE if he had to do that (it was paid for by then).

Ditto - me - with my job. If I had to apply for my OWN JOB, I couldn't qualify, because the requirements wouldn't count that I've been DOING IT for thirty plus years. It would require advanced degrees and other stuff I don't have.

Bring in someone WITH those credentials to do my job, and they'd be lost for at least a month. It wouldn't resemble ANYTHING you'd see in academia. WORSE for them, if they only program on cell phones and desktops. (I'm about 100% Unix).

IF - we brought in a smart intern with just a good grasp of logic and most programming - they COULD get the hang of it in about a year.

And they'd COST a lot less.

In a LOT of professional jobs, I'm definitely in favor of something like apprenticeships and paid internships - provided we have SOME measure that they can do the work.

We did have one person on our staff years ago with a management information systems degree - and she was without question the most useless employee we ever had. She had zero concept of something as simple as a computer file.

 

[OccamsRazor]

I am in favor of dropping the degree requirement for most jobs (read that as NOT for ALL jobs). College degrees just aren't what they used to be in the matter of preparing someone for the workforce.
Today's degrees are watered down and are awarded basically on the merits of "did you pay for it?"

 

[vraiblonde]

When you see what colleges are churning out, it's hard to make the case for hiring a college graduate. As a business owner or manager, that's just asking for it.

 

[Gilligan]

I recently read the report on a study done about this exact topic. They found that the elimination of the degree requirement for jobs that previously required one had very little net effect on the mix of new hires; the vast majority of new hires that met the job requirements......had college degrees.

 

[Kyle]

When you see what colleges are churning out, it's hard to make the case for hiring a college graduate. As a business owner or manager, that's just asking for it.

Not just hard to make a case for, but might be detrimental to the business to do so.

Who the #### would want some glass-fragile, emotionally overwrought, SJW in the office?

Too many headaches.

 

[vraiblonde]

Not just hard to make a case for, but might be detrimental to the business to do so.

Who the #### would want some glass-fragile, emotionally overwrought, SJW in the office?

Too many headaches.

HR complaints and lawsuits waiting to happen. "My boss spoke to me and it was a microaggression. I felt threatened! I have anxiety and can't come in to work today! I'm offended! How dare you belittle my lived experience! It's because I'm (insert protected minority group here)! I have a disable that precludes me from working more than an hour a day! Also I need two weeks off paid so I can go protest climate change! And I need to bring my emotional support llama to the office!"

 

[Hijinx]

In how many jobs that require a college degree has the college kid come in and been trained in their job by a real worker who had been doing that job and for lot less pay.

 

[Grumpy]

In how many jobs that require a college degree has the college kid come in and been trained in their job by a real worker who had been doing that job and for lot less pay.

Happens all the time.