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New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation In The Federal Workforce:
On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to fill job vacancies based on merit, rather than require a minimum level of education for candidates seeking open positions. The order rightly recognizes that a job candidate with several years of relevant experience may be just as qualified, if not more so, than one who has collected a stack of advanced degrees.
"Employers adopting skills- and competency-based hiring recognize that an overreliance on college degrees excludes capable candidates and undermines labor-market efficiencies," the order reads. "Currently, for most Federal jobs, traditional education — high school, college, or graduate-level — rather than experiential learning is either an absolute requirement or the only path to consideration for candidates without many years of experience."
The order still allows federal agencies to prescribe minimum educational requirements for job candidates if the degree is legally required by the state or local government where the federal employee will be working. Additionally, they may consider a candidate's education if the degree "directly reflects the competencies necessary" to do the job.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @01:47PM (4 children)
Give GP a break since they were educated by SJW teachers. In a decade, when all these "woke" companies end up bankrupt, GP will realize that a degree in advanced gender studies doesn't count for much when you're applying to clean toilets at McDonalds.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @04:11PM (3 children)
They're already headed this way. It's rather amusing watching the Silicon Valley companies engage in an extreme political bias in hiring filling their companies with rather radical leftists only to now find things like people earning 6 figures + extensive perks trying to unionize because 'fuck you we're entitled to more' or, equivalent, getting sued for arbitrary slight slights because 'boohoo i need a safe space' 24/7 365.
This is really why I stated companies were previously hiring with such a bias. I'd be quite curious to see if Google starts to reverse their bias. Google, when you look at their behaviors as a company, cares about nobody except Google so the hiring on the far left was obviously some sort of strategic decision (maybe a play to buy democratic influence) but I expect they're seeing the cost has been much higher than the reward.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @04:21PM
They'll leave the true cost [city-journal.org] behind them.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @04:22PM (1 child)
Don't forget one of the co-founders has commie roots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @03:26PM
Those commie capitalists are the worst.