Major Companies Ditch College Degree as Job Requirement
Kristen Eichamer / @KEichamer / Virginia Allen / @Virginia_Allen5 / October 19, 2023
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Some large companies are moving away from requiring college degrees for certain jobs and instead are focusing on applicants' skills, experience, passions, and cultural fit.
Kristen Eichamer is a senior media analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
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Major businesses are moving away from requiring college degrees for an increasing number of positions. Instead, they’re focusing on applicants’ skills, experience, passions, and even their cultural fit.
Fox News reports that companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Accenture, Walmart, and Google are reducing the number of corporate jobs that require a four-year college degree.
In September, for example, Walmart announced it was rewriting hundreds of job descriptions to allow for relevant experience to take the place of a college degree. In 2021, IBM announced it was removing the college degree requirement for half of its U.S. job openings.
A recent report from Philadelphia-based Burning Glass Institute predicts that the shift away from college degree requirements could open up 1.4 million jobs in the next five years for folks without such a degree.
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