Employers Still Prefer Degrees Over Skills When Hiring
While many employers are dropping degree requirements from ads when seeking candidates for certain roles, those same employers are slow to actually hire applicants without bachelor’s degrees.
David Deming, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School, explains that firms remove degree requirements from job descriptions to receive credit for opening positions to candidates without a formal education but often fail to hire based on skills alone. The reality is, Deming says, that employers view applicants with four-year degrees as an investment. They want employees who can be molded into what the firm needs.
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