Why Not Ban The College Degree Box?

Forbes ^ | July 7, 2016 | George Leef

[conservative cat]

I just gave up and got a liberal arts type of degree after 20 years in the workplace. It opened up jobs I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to apply for- even with a my experience. People in my field side eye my degree when they hear what I have, but I have been doing the work for so long, it doesn’t matter.

[generally]

I was going to post pretty much what 17th Miss Regt said.

That’s the major problem. The activists found out that aptitude testing eliminated applicants from their favored groups, so out it went. Then when college degrees became the substitute, they started going after the SATs and any other college admission criteria that had the same filtering effect they didn’t like.

I think one side effect of this is that more and more employers are hiring contractors instead of employees. That makes it easier to weed people out and get rid of the bad ones.

If it were up to me, I’d let employers give whatever tests they want to. They are the ones taking the risk on an employee. If they hire stupidly or discriminate against a truly qualified candidate, their more savvy competitors would snap him/her up.

The government needs to get their noses out of our business, both literally and figuratively.

[lepton]

Sadly, moving to another job, even laterally is very difficult. I’m expected to have a Masters at my pay scale. Never mind that I can do the job and excel at it.

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I know a fair number of people like that. Very literate, generally regarded as one of the smartest and most educated in their group...but can’t move, even to a group not stacked full of people with MSs.

[Laser_Ray]

I’m as pro-business as anyone else here and I say it’s long time for this. I’ve been the victim of blatantly obvious trickery by too many businesses - insane qualifications for ‘monkey work’ jobs, college degrees REQUIRED for ‘entry level’, 2-6 years experience for positions not stated to be entry level but posted everywhere...

I really do apologize to any fellow conservatives who are offended by this, I appreciate the work you did for the grades you got, but there is just too much tomfoolery going on and the only leverage we have is to go to our duly elected officials and pass laws.