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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a timely article out today.  Some highlights:

"Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate Bachelor's degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.

And 55 percent said they'd already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 US employers, carried out in November.

It comes after Walmart, IBM, Accenture, Bank of America and Google announced similar plans.

For example, Accenture launched an apprenticeship program in 2016 through which it has since hired 1,200 people, CNBC reported.

INDUSTRIES DROPPING DEGREE REQUIREMENT
Information services: 72%

Software: 62%

Finance and insurance: 61%

Construction: 55%

Healthcare and social assistance: 42%

Education: 35%

Some 80 percent of those people joined the company without a four-year-degree.

Earlier this year, the company expanded the program with the goal of filling 20 percent of its US entry-level roles.

Among the 55 percent of companies who eliminated bachelor's degree requirements, 70 percent did so for entry-level roles, 61 percent for mid-level roles and 45 percent for senior roles.

And of the 95 percent of employers who have bachelor's degree requirements, 24 percent require these degrees for three-quarters of their jobs and 27 percent say they require a degree for about half of their positions."

The last sentence seems written poorly...I gather that is 95% of the 45% of companies that have not eliminated bachelor's degree requirements.[/quote]

What people seem to missing in this discussion is that doing away with degree and education requirements makes it easier to hire immigrants and offshore workers who are not in the US, and to lower overall wages across the board in the US. If you are fine with that, then great.

But yes everyone, please carry on with your crusade to kill higher education and any ability to think critically and analytically in the US. I personally think it’s propaganda created and fueled by the elite powers that be, to make it even easier to create a cheaper and broader workforce that extends outside our borders.

Which is already the case but now will be even easier bc hey, why pay MBA-Tina $125k to do a job that Rajithanarayan over in India (who DOES have a degree btw) will accept $35k to do. This is what is happening every day in corporate America, and non-degreed American workers are being replaced by cheaper DEGREED workers in India and the Philippines. The irony is hilarious. But hey, what do I know?![/quote]

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