It could be called dumbing down the work force. Others might say: "What are you going to do?" It’s a tough situation.
The three most dangerous words here in the second paragraph of this WSJ piece are economists and workforce experts.
There's most likely more than a few really good workers in the group who have been isolated or discriminated against on the basis of education. You can have all the so-called HR experts you want but you can't measure desire from a piece of paper.
In fact, at the risk of alienating more higher-ups, a natural born talent of ours, the whole HR scam is another academic creation way overdone. Like everyone needs a college degree to do that. Okay. The truth is the world is over-certificated and over degreed.
Mandated continuing education is another money grabbing scam that's ballooned over the years to gigantic unnecessary proportions.. It's another way for states and the central government to collect more fees to waste.
It's a money scam academia plays and has been for years. It starts with a high school diploma and then a bachelor's degree, a master' degree and now a super-duper expert-labeling degree beyond that. Most employers will probably say they retrain their hires anyway. If they can simply read, write and add up. So-called higher education has become as often happens a money-grubbing monster too large and too powerful.
It's a two way street and everything is a paradox. Employers might discover lots of talent, good reliable hard workers that without these changes they would miss.
Another recent dumb pre-pandemic employment screening gimmick was denying workers based on their PC credit reports. Maybe if they were given a second shot they'd not make that same mistake and pay off that debt to thankful debt holders.
Just maybe some of those scorned workers are presently waving a well known and recognized finger at employers for now. You won't find that in any BS economic model on full employment.
Can you spell aardvark?
"U.S. companies are downsizing the hiring process.
"Beauty product retailer The Body Shop is dropping educational requirements and background checks for job applicants. United Parcel Service Inc. is making some job offers in as little as 10 minutes. CVS Health Inc. no longer requires college graduates to submit their grades.
"In a labor market where job openings outnumber applicants, companies are brainstorming how to get more candidates in the door and to the floor. The hiring overhaul signals a potentially broad rethink of job qualifications, a change that could help millions of people enter jobs previously out of reach, according to economists and workforce experts.
"Employers added 531,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.6% from 4.8%, the Labor Department reported Friday, indicating that companies are filling openings at a faster clip than in recent months.
"A lot has changed since the aftermath of the 2008-09 recession, when high unemployment and a flood of applicants provided companies with their pick of candidates. Many employers raised job qualifications—for instance, asking for bachelor’s degrees for IT help-desk jobs and construction supervisors, work historically held by high-school graduates. Some bumped up minimum work-experience requirements.
"New data from labor-market analytics firm EMSI Burning Glass and the Conference Board, a private research group, suggest that 1.4 million jobs will open to people without college degrees in the next five years if employers continue to lower educational requirements at the current rate. In January 2019, 42% of employment ads for insurance sales agents called for a bachelor’s degree, the data show. In September 2021, 26% did." More.
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