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It’s No Surprise That “Skills-Based” Hiring Has Not Worked (www.forbes.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision.

Since this article is non industry specific, what are your observations or opinions of the technology sector? What about the general business sector?

Should first world employees of businesses be required to obtain degrees if they reasonably expect a business related job?

Do college experiences and academic rigor reveal higher achieving employees?

Is undergraduate education a minimum standard for a more enlightened society? Or a way to hold separation between classes of people and status?

Is a masters degree the new way to differentiate yourself where the undergrad degree was before?

Edit: multiple typos, I guess that's proof that I should have done more college 😄

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (48 children)

As much as I hate the higher education requirement, if I get another “boot camp” developer application I’m gonna puke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (41 children)

Can you talk about this more?

Does it mean that a boot camp coder is not skilled enough?
Would that have those skills if they did a degree program?
Would any degree in computer/IT suffice?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (37 children)

There are people who went to Boot Camps that are excellent developers. There are people who have a masters degree in computer science who are awful developers.

skilled enough.

For entry level? Honestly, not usually. They know one thing, and if they deviate from that, their quality breaks down fast.

degree program.

Well, there’s no guarantee right? But they’d have a more well rounded understanding of programming. Anyone can use a Class, but can you make one?

degrees

Any programming degree, along with an acceptable understanding of the technologies they need on day one.

For my job specifically, we need someone with PHP experience. Not just how to . My favorite interview question is, “explain to me your understanding of PHP magic methods and how you would use them, in a basic example.”

I get a lot of dumb looks, and wrong answers.

That being said, I hired someone who failed that test, but they had a good personality and a willingness to learn—and they have a CS degree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The vast majority of boot camp grads are terrible candidates. A degree guarantees almost nothing but a boot camp cert guarantees even less.

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