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 tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring 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 your 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?

Edit: multiple typos, I guess that’s proof that I should have done more college 😄

    • RedFox@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Can you talk about this more?

      • Does it mean that a boot camp coder is not skilled enough?
      • Would that have those skills if they did a degree program?
      • Would any degree in computer/IT suffice?
      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        A boot camp means you paid someone; there is no accreditation, unlike university degree programs. A relevant degree is an indicator that someone might be suitable.

        • RedFox@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          you paid someone

          This is true in both cases

          no accreditation, unlike university degree programs

          This is true. It’s an interesting destination.

          • Would you say that an accreditation covers the technical rigor of a degree program?
          • A boot camp only cares about the narrow scope. An accreditation cares about a well rounded, and unified education experience. Do you look for that in your candidates?

          Edit: does a well rounded and accredited education provide more value to your organization than a narrowly scoped employee?

        • RedFox@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Obviously, there’s a lot of ‘it depends on the person’ in this topic. At least in my mind. I think you’re right in that both things (degree/camp) create good and bad results.

          I get a lot of dumb looks, and wrong answers.

          • Do you have any experience hiring a person who passed that test, who wasn’t a degree holder?

          • Do you have any experiences where someone failed that test, wasn’t a degree holder, and you hired them anyway?

          • Do you feel you could put a ratio to it in your field/employer?

        • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          The vast majority of boot camp grads are terrible candidates. A degree guarantees almost nothing but a boot camp cert guarantees even less.