College degrees used to have much more value. It’s no surprise that some companies no longer care.
The Washington Examiner reports:
More and more companies ditch college degree requirements for jobsBig companies like Google, Apple, and IBM are no longer requiring applicants to hold a college degree.This is a significant change. Historically, employers have required a college degree whether or not it was necessary to do the job.Is this because colleges are no longer teaching the needed skills, or because there are so many job openings to fill that standards are dropping? Could it be that vocational training and self-taught skills are enough for certain jobs in the modern-day economy?IBM is now looking at candidates with experience in non-traditional education, such as coding boot camps or industry-related vocational classes.Glassdoor compiled an August list of 15 big companies that no longer require a degree to apply:
- Ernst & Young
- Penguin Random House
- Costco Wholesale
- Whole Foods
- Hilton
- Publix
- Apple
- Starbucks
- Nordstrom
- Home Depot
- IBM
- Bank of America
- Chipotle
- Lowe’s
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