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 😄
I agree that training people is expensive - I’m just not convinced that any other system than the probationary one works. That is to say, there’s sufficient cases of people getting past whatever screening plan the companies have and yet cannot do the job. Depending on the company, once you’re permanent, it can be very hard and every expensive to fire you - especially in some countries.
I’m not suggesting that you should take anyone off the street and give them a probationary period. I’m saying if your position needs a skills assessment, I don’t think there’s a functional one other than a few months of actually doing the job. Too many other systems are easily gamed, or are easily set up to fail people inappropriately too.