Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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Delta was saying they don't have a problem finding enough people who want to be pilots for the airline.
A lot of people work their way up through various types of flying, hoping to get to the big commercial airlines.
But that was just one example of many where companies were saying, we have kept a lot of people out of the pool of applicants for jobs where we could have expanded that pool, whether that was about opening opportunity for people who maybe didn't
needed more opportunities in the job market, or for some companies, part of this was also about diversifying their workforces.
And so being able to open jobs to a larger pool of potential candidates, there were a lot of reasons why they felt that having a bigger pool to draw from would allow them to actually pluck the best people from that pool without using an unnecessary screening mechanism, which for some jobs was the bachelor's degree.
There's the rub.
It turns out it's not easy to rethink the credentialing of jobs.
It's actually a big undertaking to look through all of your job postings and say, okay, let's take one by one.
Does this job really need the degree requirement?
Is there a different certification or credential that would also indicate somebody has the right skills for the job?
So that is a large part of the process.
But once you take those degree requirements off,
Then it becomes about what the hiring managers are doing.
And so what researchers have found, there's new data that's come out about these job openings.
And unfortunately, it has turned out that these changes haven't necessarily affected or changed who's actually being hired for jobs.
So it's one thing to take the requirement off.
It's another to actually...
change who's being given the offers.
And what these researchers that I cited in the story found was that for every hundred jobs that have been opened up to people without a college degree who wouldn't have been able to apply for all these jobs before, only about three or four new jobs actually went to people without degrees.
It means that you have to really think about how you're assessing candidates.
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