A new report shows that, even after businesses announce dropping college degree requirements for jobs, most hire college graduates anyway.

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tired skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hired because it was warranted, or they didn’t adapt their process in spite of executive vision.

Since this article is non industry specific, what are you observations or opinions of the technology sector? What about the general business sector?

Should first world employees of businesses be required to obtain degrees if they reasonably expect a business related job?

Do college experiences and academic rigor reveal higher achieving employees?

Is undergraduate education a minimum standard for a more enlightened society? Or a way to hold separation between classes of people and status?

Is a masters degree the new way to differentiate yourself where the undergrad degree was before?

  • Solemarc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago
    • Kind of, I work mainly in PHP, Python & JS the only one of those that I was exposed to in school was PHP. I learnt the other two on my own after graduating. I did also get a little exposure to git in school but I learnt more about it in a month or so of being hired then I did in school. I also got a lot of, how to do documentation, how to analyse requirements, etc.
    • what does this mean?
    • 1000% yes.
    • RedFox@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      general business

      Concepts of standard American businesses,. communication, business processes, professional presentation, product production life cycles, business man/women stuff