A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe

Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe by randomdata on Saturday December 07, 2013 @04:46PM (#6867826)

What you do, however, is remove the reason job seekers go to college in the first place. There are not that many jobs that actually require a degree, other than as a superficial filtering mechanism, so you can take them out of that system.

The result is that demand for college decreases, therefore the price will decrease through the properties of supply and demand, which leaves an education that returns to being affordable for those who actually care about an education.

You are right that businesses will have to find a new filtering mechanism, but it can be one that doesn't come at the cost of making education unobtainable to those who want an education.

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Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe by eshvk on Saturday December 07, 2013 @11:03PM (#6868908)

> What you do, however, is remove the reason job seekers go to college in the first place. There are not that many jobs that actually require a degree, other than as a superficial filtering mechanism, so you can take them out of that system.

This is a second order effect which I am not so sure which actually happen reality. I posit that it is also likely that people move the requirements to an internal portal, everyone gets wind of such a thing, mainly when HR reps start writing that "breakthrough book" about secrets of getting your first job and everyone still keeps going to college.

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Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe by bluedino on Sunday December 08, 2013 @11:37AM (#6870132)

Remember that the old filter was "is the applicant white?"

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