Education Level - Page 6

This might be true the generation before us but less so for the present job market going forth. College degrees are used as a way to filter society. Only a x amount of white collar jobs and way too many people in the world.

Are you actually job hunting? Just in your area? Just in your fields? I have a bs in ee and I’ve worked 2 years as a case worker. No social worker experience related to the field. Again my boss who was 2 years older than me had no degree.


Are some of you just applying blue level companies?

Youre completely wrong and got it confused it’s the other way around. Google it there was just a big post today how the companies top ceo are dropping college requirements . We’re in the new age of learning where if you truly want to learn something you can do it yourself vs college was pretty much the only way of learning a certain skill

Just saw this article on linked in.

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/...ments-5432466/

Ok NPC.

Exactly my point. The traditional way of getting a highly skilled job is changing. You no longer need a degree, the world is changing

Surprisingly I worked as a job recruiter for my county. And yeah we used ATS software to quickly filter out what we were looking for with the system searching specific keywords. And not the typical ones you’d think but the ones we were looking for related the actual job. And college degree was the least thing we cared for. There was a time where they did looked at the educational level as their first and primary criteria because hey if they managed to get a 3.0+ gpa, they managed to finished 4 years of cramming and memorizing then hey this job should be a piece a of cake. Wrong wrong wrong. What you learn at college definitely does not translate well into the real world. If it’s a engineer or health related job then no doubt it does but most jobs nah once we hired this kid freshly graduated from a top tier college here in the state, amazing gpa great recommendations what an amazing resume. Passed the initial interviews with flying colors. Hired a few weeks later. He was given a 2 month training probation period. He did terrible on it.

One of the biggest thing that determined whether your resume moves to the consideration pile is how confident in either doing OR learning how to do the job the resume gave off. How does your experience and trust me you don’t need direct experience but how does whatever you have translate to what you’re applying too.


Most people focus on an objective resume instead of a summary resume. A summary resume works better because it saying “HEY this is what I can bring to the table and if that doesn’t impress you well look what else I can do for your company”.





Having a degree CAN only help. It’ll never affect you negatively. You have a degree in writing? Good!! Put that in your resume and explain how whatever you learn can translate well into the job you’re applying. But it’s definitely NOT the single factor that determines if you get that job. Your resume WILL be read but whether it makes it to the consideration pile really depends how well you make your experiences be

Lol clown

I think Brenda Brown bring up a great point:

"Okay, this sounds good on the surface, but how will this ultimately impact the "career promotional" track?

From the perspective of background, employers for decades have engaged in hiring practices, in which potential hires, have been able to become an employee with, say, only a high school diploma. But this has only allowed the employee access to the lowest level of the company, i.e. an entry level position. However, when it came time for the employee to access higher levels in the company, they typically have encountered the "upward mobility ceiling", with the employer indicating the lack of an appropriate degree/credential.

Fast forward to today's proposal of dropping degree requirements in hiring, if implemented, how is this going to change/alter the career/position upward mobility issue to increase higher wage work for employees?"

What fields are you referring to? I would 100% agree with you in terms of technology and possibly business.