2026-04-22 07:57 UTC
To be fair, when job listings require any university degree to apply, regardless of its relevance to the job in question, it becomes obvious the actual knowledge and education are secondary to simply checking a box. No wonder so many people are allowing AI to do their thinking for them. Any system defined by its technicalities is going to have loopholes.
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@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2026-04-22 12:36
That is very true. However (at least from what I was always taught) the reason employers "require" ANY degree is less about *what* you learn and more about showing them that you have *ability* and *commitment* necessary TO learn. An employer isn't generally interested in what you know; they're always going to teach you their way of doing things anyway. Employers want to know that you have the focus to actually learn their systems. So the end result of "fast degrees" will be the opposite of what job hunters think. It'll just devalue degrees in the eyes of employers because it no longer signifies the very metric they were measuring, which was the *ability to pay attention*