Employers across a range of industries are dropping a job requirement once considered a ticket to a higher paying job and financial security: a college degree.
Today’s tight labor market has led more companies instead to take a more skills-based approach to hiring, as evidenced on job search sites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
“Part of it is employers realizing they may be able to do a better job finding the right talent by looking for the skills or competencies someone needs to do the job and not letting a degree get in the way of that,” Parisa Fatehi-Weeks, senior director of environmental, social and governance (ESG) for hiring platform Indeed told CBS MoneyWatch.
Yet another reason to justify lower wages. This is right up there with “unskilled labor”.
This is exactly my suspicion. “Not enough workers!” (willing to slave away for poverty wages), so now they’re gambling that they can just hire and train anyone (and meet their arbitrary wage goals). May these businesses cease to exist.
I’ve worked with some horribly incompetent phds (and some excellent ones), the paper alone only tells you they managed to finance and dedicate years to something, not that they have strong skills.
Requiring a degree should come with a minimum pay. Perhaps $30 per hr for a bachelor and $40 for a masters.
Those some low wages for jobs requiring degrees.
I am not saying those are the correct rates. As a floor they probably should be low. Rates should vary by area anyway. Perhaps as a percentage of median apartment or home rent?
But here in rural America I have seen plenty of jobs that require degrees that pay less than that.
$30 an hour is in the 70th percentile of median income, and $40 an hour is in the 80th.
The median worker with a Bachelor’s degree makes about $27 an hour.
I get that it’s more than the majority of people make. I just still think it’s too low. Everybody making less than $400k should be making more.
I have seriously seen 50k jobs requiring a Master’s. I have made well over that in the last 15 years with just an Associate’s. That I just got. In the same field.
Companies are stupid if they think anyone is going to apply there.
I believe teaching usually requires a Masters
It does! They should get paid more. But capitalism.
Jeez, I’m a school bus driver and we get $30 an hour - obviously no degree is required.
CDL at least?
Yes, also passenger, school bus and air brake endorsements. And you have to pass random drug tests, which is the biggest hardship.
Does anyone check? I’ve Costanzaed my way into a couple of jobs that asked for college degree. Nobody ever asked me to prove it, I just did the job as asked and nobody thought twice.
My college actually closed for a few years and it didn’t have any effect on my job-seeking. I’ve also asked my three references if any prospective employer has ever contacted them and nope. For that matter, I’m a programmer and most of the jobs I’ve had required a Computer Science degree, which I don’t have. I’ve often mused about what sort of outrageous bullshit I could get away with on my CV; these stories of high-up people eventually getting fired for fraudulent resumes surprise me not at all.
I find jobs with IT it really matters what you’ve done on your own or previous jobs. I don’t have a degree, but I’ve setup piholes, truenas, Microsoft servers, dabble in Linux, have ubiquiti firewalls and waps, had Cisco equipment, have done a little of everything, firewalls, nas storage, etc. I have certs, and if you ask me how to do something I won’t hesitate to show you what I’d do or tell you I’d have to look it up. It’s not programming, but knowing larger pictures and scenarios really helps and you know “what” needs to be done, it just may be different on meraki vs ubiquiti vs Netgear equipment.
Both my last background checks “checked”. You could see the status page where they were along the process and it had a green check after a few days. What that actually means, who knows.
The best employees in my office went to State and Community college. The worst are the Ivy League ones who can’t pass a single test outside of college. The second worst are those given jobs way outside their skills or degree. Then not required to take training. I would take a no degree cert over a degree in wrong field any day.
Only way to get a job nowadays is by personally knowing the management or boss, good ol’ nepotism…
That’s not nepotism, it’s networking. Nepotism is getting the job by being the boss’ kid. It’s also the reason why degrees/diplomas with a co-op or internship component are valuable. As a co-op, you’re a low-risk/low-cost hire and the manager can evaluate your skills and get to know you. Come graduation, if you did a good job, you can reach out to those managers and have a much better chance at getting hired.
