Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by Jtsummers on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:37AM (#26239325)

It causes inflation of job requirements, delays entry into careers, produces vast amounts of unnecessary debt and spending, promotes substandard graduate programs so people can be differentiated from the other history majors, and all because a high school diploma is considered worthless by most companies for their non-technical entry level positions.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by minitoar on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:41PM (#26240241)

Maybe the value of differentiating potential employees is worth it overall.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by Jtsummers on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:22PM (#26240714)

Maybe for the businesses, I'm skeptical that this is a positive for society and the economy overall.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#26242123)

Size of their feet differentiates them too. How is it actually usefull?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by Jtsummers on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:08PM (#26242912)

To expand on your point, it's the arbitrary and superfluous nature of this requirement.

If I were hiring pilots, to go with the physical quality example, I would discriminate on height. You can be too short to operate an aircraft, and you can be too tall or too big to fit in some aircraft (I knew a helicopter pilot who only flew helicopters because he couldn't, physically, fit in fighter aircraft which had been his dream job). But if I were running an airline, I wouldn't use this as a discriminator on all my employees, only the ones that it made sense for.

Degrees ought to be treated similarly in white collar jobs.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by minitoar on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:09PM (#26242239)

If that’s a useful differentiator then people would probably use it. Maybe you’re trying to imply that whether or not a candidate has a certain credential is not useful as a differentiator?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:17PM (#26242339)

Would they? We don't use IQ or neuroticism, are they useless? We have solid proof that attractive sociopaths get ahead more, is that usefull?

Maybe we should not pretend that hiring is this optimally tuned machine that knows exactly whats needed

[ Parent | on HN ]