EMPLOYERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. Go read Griggs vs Duke Power. The problem is the courts.
I beg to differ. Employers ARE at least partly to blame.
They’ve fallen for the sales pitch of the education establishment that “we will pop-out grads who are fully prepared to go to work for you. You need not invest one penny of your own to train them.”
And I could fill a book with stories of employers who made bad hires just cause they fell for the fancy degree on the resume.
True story...I worked for a company that had to file a lot of legal paperwork related to permits, licenses, and business visas for their people to travel to foreign countries. They were spending a fortune on legal fees.
Looking to enhance the bottom line they decided to bring this function in house. They trained a young woman who had been our receptionist. She only had a high-school diploma, but was bright and hard-working. The kind of person who, if you show them once how to do a job properly, can do it damned well.
After a year her rejection rate on the visa applications was LOWER than that of the attorneys whom they had been paying $300 per hour.