{"id":9364,"date":"2022-05-25T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2022-05-25T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:37:50","slug":"heres-why-employers-are-getting-rid-of-4-year-degree-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=9364","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why employers are getting rid of 4-year degree requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"caas-content-body\">\n<div id=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"module-article\">\n<div id=\"caas-art-5b2a7108-f8f5-4259-80bf-2ec9aaa0f000\" class=\"caas caas-cc money enableAdSlotsOneSlot enableLiveConfig enableSingleSlotting enableSlideShowKV enableVideoDocking enableVideoThirtyView enableXrayEntityAboutFacts noRapidClickClass removeDuplicateImage showCommentsIconInShareSec slideshowv2 caas-click-attached\" data-assets=\"[]\" data-cobrandname=\"\" data-device=\"desktop\" data-i18n=\"{&quot;{0} min&quot;:&quot;{0} min&quot;,&quot;{0} min read&quot;:&quot;{0} min read&quot;,&quot;{0} mins read&quot;:&quot;{0} mins read&quot;,&quot;{0} Views&quot;:&quot;{0} Views&quot;,&quot;{0} followers&quot;:&quot;{0} followers&quot;,&quot;{0} symbols&quot;:&quot;{0} symbols&quot;,&quot;{0} at {1}&quot;:&quot;{0} at {1}&quot;,&quot;360_TITLE&quot;:&quot;The 360&quot;,&quot;Ad&quot;:&quot;Ad&quot;,&quot;AD_PLACEHOLDER_TEXT&quot;:&quot;Advertisement&quot;,&quot;AND&quot;:&quot;and&quot;,&quot;AR_INLINE_FALLBACK&quot;:&quot;This story has augmented reality! 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accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-body\">\n<p>John Williams heard about the apprenticeship through his former high school and decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>At the time,\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-williams-58443a129\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Williams\" data-rapid_p=\"9\" data-v9y=\"1\">Williams<\/a>, now 22, was finishing up his associate degree in computer science at\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.edu\/colleges\/wright\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wilbur Wright College\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-v9y=\"1\">Wilbur Wright College<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago and working part-time at a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>He was accepted at that apprenticeship, which is run by the global professional services company Accenture, as part of its efforts to ramp up hiring based on skills rather than just higher education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was an apprentice for one year starting in July 2019,\u201d Williams told Yahoo Money. \u201cAfter completing the program, I was hired as a full-time employee, and, last November was promoted to the position of information technology analyst.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container noheight\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/vyUku.XS44XJJVexVhXKqQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-04\/6ff64a30-c1a1-11ec-b7f9-18aa033047b3\" alt=\"Why many employers are ditching the four-year degree requirement\" data-caas-lazy-loading-init=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\" data-id=\"m-0\">John Williams, an Accenture apprencticeship graduate, now works full-time for the company as an information technology analyst from his home office. (Photo courtesy of Accenture)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent years, major employers, including Accenture, AT&amp;T, Dell, Google, Hilton Hotels, Ernst &amp; Young, Oracle, IBM and Intel hired more workers, like Williams, without four-year college degrees, according to \u201cThe Emerging Degree Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage,\u201d a\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/managing-the-future-of-work\/Documents\/research\/emerging_degree_reset_020922.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:recent report\" data-rapid_p=\"11\" data-v9y=\"1\">recent report<\/a>\u00a0by the Burning Glass Institute, an independent nonprofit research center, tapping data from Emsi Burning Glass, a labor-market data firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/money.yahoo.com\/why-many-employers-have-ditched-4-year-degree-requirements-135219348.html\">Read on Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movement away from the four-year degree prerequisite is growing. With close to two open jobs for each of the 6 million unemployed workers that the Labor Department counted in February, employers\u00a0<a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/money.yahoo.com\/job-loss-pandemic-retirement-boom-175126823.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:struggle to find skilled workers;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-rapid_p=\"12\" data-v9y=\"1\">struggle to find skilled workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A degree requirement immediately jettisons from consideration the 62% of the U.S. adults over age 25 without a bachelor\u2019s degree \u2014 including 71% of the Black population and 79% of the Hispanic population, according to recent\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2022\/educational-attainment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Census Bureau findings\" data-rapid_p=\"13\" data-v9y=\"1\">Census Bureau findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Major implications for job seekers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The researchers analyzed more than 51 million job listings, looking for four-year college degree requirements. In 2017, 51% required the degree. By 2021, that share had declined to 44%.<\/p>\n<p>At Accenture, for example, the researchers found the share of postings specifying a Bachelor of Arts degree or higher fell to 43% in 2021 from 54% in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>When employers drop degrees, they become more meticulous about skills in job postings, seeking soft skills such as writing, communication, and being detail-oriented, the researchers added.<\/p>\n<p>This reshuffle could have major implications for how employers open opportunities for an additional 1.4 million jobs for workers without college degrees over the next five years, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The change is most visible for middle-skill positions \u2014 defined as those requiring some post-secondary education or training but less than a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s just a start. Of the middle-skill job descriptions the researchers reviewed, 37% showed no decrease in degree requirements, \u201cwhich means that some 15.7 million people have effectively been walled out of the candidate pool, even as employers complain bitterly about the unavailability of workers,\u201d they\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2022\/02\/skills-based-hiring-is-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote\" data-rapid_p=\"15\" data-v9y=\"0\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The cost of four-year degrees has been a major hurdle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The average cost of tuition and fees for the 2021-2022 school year is $43,775 at private colleges, $28,238 for out-of-state students at public schools and $11,631 for state residents at public colleges, according to data reported to\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/paying-for-college\/articles\/what-you-need-to-know-about-college-tuition-costs#:~:text=In%20looking%20just%20at%20schools,according%20to%20data%20reported%20to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. News &amp; World Report\" data-rapid_p=\"16\" data-v9y=\"1\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t go to a four-year college specifically due to how much it cost,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t have the money for me to go. Being almost $100,000 in debt was not what I wanted to do. So, I went to a city college and worked and paid out of pocket for my time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many workers, a lack of a four-year degree can make it harder to find work. The U.S. unemployment rate for those 25 and older with a high school degree, but no college, is more than twice as high than those with a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher, according to the\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t04.htm__;!!Gajz09w!SFRBezncY_5d0lOTUOm-ZO7LPm3LDdfhC4KjFK5kWgc4TK6LPlR7GLS8fQanp52M016wQwQ$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics\" data-rapid_p=\"17\" data-v9y=\"0\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Williams, Accenture\u2019s focus on skills-based hiring appears to be paying off with a path to a career with promising income potential. The average base salary for an information technology analyst at Accenture is $82,000 per year in the Chicago- area, according to\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\/Salary\/Accenture-Technology-Analyst-Chicago-Salaries-EJI_IE4138.0,9_KO10,28_IL.29,36_IM167.htm#:~:text=Accenture%20Salary%20FAQs&amp;text=The%20average%20salary%20for%20a,per%20year%20for%20this%20job.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Glassdoor\" data-rapid_p=\"18\" data-v9y=\"0\">Glassdoor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge was learning a new technology and middleware, a type of computer software,\u201d he said. \u201cAt first it was a lot to process, but the training gave me the foundation to work in a team and the skills. And in meetings with our external clients, my communication skills improved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accenture\u2019s one-year apprenticeship, known as the\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.accenture.com\/news\/accenture-expands-apprenticeship-hiring-to-20-percent-of-us-entry-level-roles.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:learn-and-earn model\" data-rapid_p=\"19\" data-v9y=\"0\">learn-and-earn model<\/a>, for example, focuses on digital economy jobs \u2014 without a four-year degree requirement,\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pallaviverma1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pallavi Verma\" data-rapid_p=\"20\" data-v9y=\"0\">Pallavi Verma<\/a>, Senior Managing Director, North America Lead, Apprenticeship Program at Accenture, told Yahoo Money.<\/p>\n<p>The company aimed to fill 20% of its entry-level roles from its apprenticeship program for its fiscal year 2022, an increase from 15% from the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Accenture apprentices, like Williams, receive paid training in areas including application development, cybersecurity, data engineering, cloud and platform engineering. These roles are among the nearly half of Accenture entry-level positions in the U.S. open to people without a four-year college degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recruit apprentices from community colleges, tech academies and nonprofits, such as\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.npower.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:NPower\" data-rapid_p=\"21\" data-v9y=\"1\">NPower<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yearup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Year Up\" data-rapid_p=\"22\" data-v9y=\"1\">Year Up<\/a>,\u201d Verma said. \u201cThe vast majority \u2014 960 people, or 80% of our apprentices \u2014 joined Accenture without a four-year college degree. Part of the beauty of the apprenticeship program is that we get to teach the apprentices the skills they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Google launches new initiative to boost the new world of hiring<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>More evidence of the movement toward skills-based hiring is Google\u2019s new $100 million fund to sponsor an\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220217005942\/en\/Google-Launches-Fund-with-Goal-to-Drive-1B-in-Aggregate-Wage-Gains-for-American-Jobseekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:initiative\" data-rapid_p=\"23\" data-v9y=\"0\">initiative\u00a0<\/a>to find, train and build lanes to good jobs in fields like data analytics, IT support, project management, and UX design for workers without a four-year college degree.<\/p>\n<p>Dell Technologies has also developed a program focused on hiring from community colleges. Positions cover the gambit from cybersecurity to engineering, tech support, tech sales, and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a talent shortage all technology companies are facing and it will only increase as time goes on, if action isn\u2019t taken today to step out of the traditional recruiting model and open up opportunities for individuals without advanced degrees,\u201d Jennifer Newbill, Dell\u2019s director of university recruitment, told Yahoo Money.<\/p>\n<p>At Bank of America, a four-year degree has rarely closed doors for job-seekers,\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-jordan-4b42a111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:John Jordan\" data-rapid_p=\"24\" data-v9y=\"0\">John Jordan<\/a>, head of The Academy, Bank of America\u2019s onboarding, education and professional development division, told Yahoo Money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re often asked if we worked to eliminate degree requirements from our job requirements, but notably most of our jobs do not require a four-year college degree,\u201d he said. \u201cWe take a skills-based approach to both hiring and learning, and a majority of our entry level roles do not require degrees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/about-shrm\/press-room\/press-releases\/pages\/fresh-shrm-research-explores-use-of-automation-and-ai-in-hr.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:research\" data-rapid_p=\"25\" data-v9y=\"0\">\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0by SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management) shows that nearly 1 in 4 human resource professionals surveyed report using artificial intelligence (AI) in their recruitment and hiring process. And AI can automatically eliminate those without a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers and hiring managers are missing out on possibly great employees by using AI-driven screening tools that filter out people without college degrees,\u201d Ramona Schindelheim, editor-in-chief of\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/workingnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:WorkingNation\" data-rapid_p=\"26\" data-v9y=\"0\">WorkingNation<\/a>, a nonprofit news organization, told Yahoo Money. \u201cA degree is not the same thing as a skill. Your experience as a problem-solver or a leader isn&#8217;t determined by a piece of paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are qualities you can only demonstrate in an interview by talking about your work and how you creatively solved a problem or mentored someone to help them succeed, she said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Still on long way to go<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Joseph Fuller, a professor at the Harvard Business School and a co-author of the Burning Glass report, is encouraged by his research with some caveats. \u201cWe have a very distinct abatement movement in the United States for employers to say they are removing the degree requirement as a corporate policy, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it disappears from all job postings made by that company,\u201d Fuller told Yahoo Money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I do think skills-based hiring is going to be increasingly common for a couple of reasons. The first is workforce demographics in the U.S. are pretty perilous,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don&#8217;t have a growing workforce. Companies are going to have to get used to searching the pool of eager beavers that show up at their doors and the widespread commitment by particularly larger companies to improve their performance on diversity hiring in terms of ethnicity African Americans or Hispanics, they will need to reduce inequity on some levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The payback for employers will likely be positive. \u201cBy opening the aperture on your recruiting, you&#8217;ll get more people that not only have the relevant skills and experience, but they&#8217;re excited to get\u00a0<em>your\u00a0<\/em>job, not the job they&#8217;re settling for, or not a job that they&#8217;re ambivalent about,\u201d Fuller said.<\/p>\n<header class=\"caas-header\">\n<header class=\"caas-title-wrapper\">\n<h1 data-test-locator=\"headline\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-attr author\"><a class=\"link caas-attr-logo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/author\/kerry-hannon\" data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Kerry Hannon\" data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/idIDpzmXl_bIC2JZkIj6FQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-03\/57a5f580-a3cd-11ec-b1fc-d323fa628773\" alt=\"Kerry Hannon\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/idIDpzmXl_bIC2JZkIj6FQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-03\/57a5f580-a3cd-11ec-b1fc-d323fa628773\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-attr-meta\">\n<div class=\"caas-attr-item-author\"><span class=\"caas-author-byline-collapse\" data-id=\"m-0\"><a class=\"link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/author\/kerry-hannon\" data-ylk=\"elm:author;slk:Kerry Hannon\" data-rapid_p=\"8\" data-v9y=\"1\">Kerry Hannon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-attr-item\"><span class=\"caas-attr-meta-separator\">\u00b7<\/span>Senior Columnist<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-attr-time-style\"><time class=\"\" datetime=\"2022-04-22T13:52:19.000Z\">April 22, 2022<\/time><span class=\"caas-attr-meta-separator\">\u00b7<\/span>8 min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-content-contain-share\">\n<div class=\"caas-attr-separator\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator-ext\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Kerry is a Senior Columnist and Senior Reporter at Yahoo Money. 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