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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay but why should I, as an employer, GAF who is the best student? I don’t have any jobs for studying and taking tests. I need to know who is the best project manager and best salesperson and best communicator. Mind you, I do think student quality has some overlap with the skills I’m looking for, but you’re the one talking about the “best students.”

I find the obsession over where a person spends 4 years of their life really odd. Especially in the DMV, people seem to take more about predictors of success than actual… success.

And before you accuse me of being a naive populist, I went to Northwestern.[/quote]

The easiest way for you, as an employer, to determine who is the best manager / salesperson / communicator would be to administer some type of IQ or aptitude test to job applicants. But you're not allowed to do that thanks to Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971). Therefore, you, like all employers, are forced to use proxies to achieve the same effect.[b] The leading proxy for ability to do the job is, of course, "what degree do you have and where did you get it from".[/b] That may not be optimal from an employer's perspective but here we are.[/quote]
LOL!!!!!!!![/quote]

You don't like it, but degrees are pretty much the only thing employers have to judge qualities that make for good employees, eg, conscientiousness. [/quote]

Not true. First off, no one cares about the degree once you have five years of work experience under your belt. Second, even for first jobs fresh out of college, many students are able to offer letters of recommendation from professors or employers. They can also have national certifications that matter, research publications, etc.[/quote]

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