Do Too Many Employers Want Job Candidates To Have A Degree

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Do too many employers want job candidates to have a degree?

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Raising the Employment Bar

Hiring new talent is one of the most challenging tasks for a human resource manager.

Seeking, examining, sorting, training, and mentoring a new recruit is exhilarating. To help find

the perfect candidate for the job, employers often ask for the academic qualifications of the

interviewees. Candidates with higher educational skills like a college degree often stand better

chances of getting the job than those, say, with a high school diploma (Brooks, 2017).

Competition drives the modern world, and one of the surest ways to get to the top is to have a

qualified and hardworking team which is the reason why many employers prefer job candidates

with a degree. Moreover, the number of people with basic education is high nowadays than it

was a few years back prompting employers to raise job qualifications.

The modern workplace is ever evolving and requires a specific skill set. Furthermore, the

development of technology and rising globalization has enabled many organizations to expand

their markets across the globe. Candidates without a college degree often do not meet the

demands of such jobs, and are, therefore, not favored. Even the requirements for entry level jobs

are high. In fact, college graduates are taking over jobs traditionally meant for individuals with

high school diplomas. Moreover, even some positions that were held by college graduates in the

past are now being favored for those with a master's degree (Elejalde-Ruiz, 2016). The reason

that employers give for this trend is that the requirements for these jobs positions have changed

and hence the need for more educationally qualified workers.

Also, for an employer, more educated employees are like a Swiss Army Knife: they offer

a wide range of skills and benefits that are valuable to the company. For one, there is a guarantee

that they will deliver quality work. Throughout their education, they have been trained even to

use scientific means to solve a problem. Moreover, one can be assured that many graduates have

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better communication skills (it is mandatory for a student to do a communication skills course in

many institutions), are more innovative, and generally more productive (Brooks, 2017). These

are some of the advantages that make employers raise educational standards for their prospective

employees.

Nowadays, basic education is considered as an essential need and is mandatory for every

person in many countries around the world (Roser & Ortiz-Ospina, n.d.). More often than not,

many people learn to a certain level of education, mostly high school, and never advance. So the

number of educated people is high, making the process of job candidate selection even harder.

This is one of the reasons why employers prefer candidates with college degrees even for jobs

that never required such qualification before. Further on, this requirement pushes many job

seekers to advance their education so that they can go for better jobs.

It is no secret that employers have raised their education qualifications for their new

hires. Nowadays, employers value a bachelor's degree too much, and with reasons. The work

environment has dramatically evolved, calling the need for more qualified personnel and it is

mostly those with a degree that fit into these positions. Moreover, more educated people are

more versatile because college education imparts students with a diverse skillset and abilities that

are valuable to employers. Lastly, since it is (almost) mandatory for every person to get the basic

education, the number of educated people is high hence the need to raise hiring standard. A

degree qualification is a sieve that employers use to shortlist their candidates.

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References

Brooks, C. (2017). Hit the Books: Employers increasing educational requirements. Retrieved

from https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7103-no-degree-no-job.html

Elejalde-Ruiz, A. (2016, March 19). No college degree? That's a growing hurdle to getting hired.

The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-

employers-raise-education-requirements-0320-biz-20160318-story.html

Roser, M., & Ortiz-Ospina, E. (n.d.). Global rise of education. Retrieved from

https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education

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