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The best paying jobs that remain require learning and not just high school diplomas.
So that’s what people are incentivized to obtain. Even if they hate it.
Like any metric, eventually people focus on the metric not the aspect it’s meant to measure.
Eventually everyone has a degree, so the previous filter threshold resulted in too many candidates.
The threshold is moved higher, which means that there is now a glut of candidates who are not considered for the roles they are aiming for.
They look for the next best options.
Repeat ad Infinitum and now you have college degree requirements for roles that don’t really need them.
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To be honest, this is a place where GenAi can actually help, without turning into some nightmare of evals or soulless chat bots.
Half the time I’m wondering if I should just quit and build this or figure out how to do it within the firm.
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The best paying jobs that remain require learning and not just high school diplomas.
So that’s what people are incentivized to obtain. Even if they hate it.
Like any metric, eventually people focus on the metric not the aspect it’s meant to measure.
Eventually everyone has a degree, so the previous filter threshold resulted in too many candidates.
The threshold is moved higher, which means that there is now a glut of candidates who are not considered for the roles they are aiming for.
They look for the next best options.
Repeat ad Infinitum and now you have college degree requirements for roles that don’t really need them.
——-
To be honest, this is a place where GenAi can actually help, without turning into some nightmare of evals or soulless chat bots.
Half the time I’m wondering if I should just quit and build this or figure out how to do it within the firm.