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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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 30 2020, @05:22PM (4 children)
That is far less informative than someone thinks.
In the second world war, I believe a lot of black veterans got shit on. By the time I joined the Navy, it was integrated. Black guys got everything that white guys got, we shared the same berthing areas, the same scuttlebutts, the same mess deck, same everything.
At this point in time, SOME black guys segregated themselves as much as possible from white people. And SOME white guys segregated themselves from blacks. As a matter of course, I shared and shared alike with black, white, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Filipino, including the Maori tribesman who did NOT mingle with the rest of the Filipinos.
At no point in my military service was I offered anything because I was white, or denied anything because I was white.
Some of you folk need to get a grip on real history. US history isn't as sweet as some of the far-right white supremacists would have you believe, but it isn't all as dark and dreary as lefists would have you believe.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday June 30 2020, @10:47PM (1 child)
Unfortunately the problem wasn't on the GI Bill end of the pipeline; it was on the education side. My local state university was founded in 1911, but didn't graduate an African American until 1965.
My state has a long and shameful history of racism. It's important to remember it so we don't make those mistakes again.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:13AM
》 My local state university was founded in 1911, but didn't graduate an African American until 1965.
It's not the university's fault that Blacks are a bit slower. Once Affirmative Action ramps up again, BIPOCs will be getting their PhDs in a week or two to make up for it... much more efficient than the seven years it took Dr Dre to get his degree.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @11:53PM (1 child)
Yep, meritocracy, and Americans who are Geographically challenged. Rest of the Filipinos? Are you Pinoy ignorant, Runaway?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 01 2020, @02:15AM
Call it what you like. Nepomesimo's grandfather was a head hunter. He ate Tagalog and other tribesemen for dinner. Pinoy or whoever, it didn't matter, if you couldn't defend yourself from the hill giants, you were going home for lunch.
I asked Nepo once, "Did you ever eat anyone?" His reply was, "I ate whatever my mother gave me."