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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @02:56PM (3 children)
Isn't this a problem? Specialization has narrowed the scope of competence and interpersonal skills are lacking. We're left with vassals who (as Douglas Murray puts it) are "educated into a state of imbecility" - even outsourcing thought itself. [areomagazine.com] Credentialism is that most vile of fallacies, the appeal to authority but without a broader set of competencies than specialization permits, there can be no competence and no authority. The gravitas and respect that comes with real world experience is earned through merit where there can be serious consequences for failure. If fortune favors the bold, what of the current crop of cowardly conformists? Universities shouldn't be safe spaces, they should be intellectual battlegrounds where students expand the scope of their learning and experience. Organizations need original thinkers and risk takers, they need mavericks who rub against the grain and win the respect of their peers. A rethink of the university system is long overdue.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @03:25PM (1 child)
Ha ha I would mod you funny if I wasn't crying.
The university I work at is the EXACT opposite of a creative hotbed. The professors are, in the main, authoritarians who never had an original thought but learnt (from those before them) to bullshit and nod and act like a professor's supposed to act. These are the last people on earth you want training your kids. Unless you want your kids to be scared conformists that have forgotten how to think for themselves.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @11:56PM
Charlie? Turning Point Community College drop-out? Oh, you are one of those ex-students! Like TMB! Just too smart for the world, too smart for your own good. Makes us all wonder why god even created you!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 30 2020, @03:42PM
They need (probably less than 3%) leaders who agree on a vision and a direction, the rest of what they need are cogs for the machine.
Mavericks and people who rub against the grain are pretty easy to come by, winning the respect of the cogs is easier when the cogs have been trained...
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