When the minimum job requirement is a bachelor degree
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
April 12, 2016 12:43am CST
I have seen many cases where the companies want to hire a degree holder, but the job does not require a degree qualification.
Many of these jobs are entry level jobs that a high school leaver can manage.
The job scope are likely to be simple filing, answering calls, data entry, preparing letters for mass mailing preparing reports by changing one or two numbers in a standard template etc.
All these are jobs that high school leavers can handle, so I wonder why there is a need to get degree holder.
Many young graduates with good degrees feel that they are wasting their lives away in such environment.
They do not see a way out of it, especially when they see the limited career progression of their seniors who are doing the same job for years.
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8 responses
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
12 Apr 16
Here it is the same. It is hardly to see a job recruitment requires a high school people. All need to have at least a bachelor degree. And furthermore, you need to look well, 1.63cm for woman and 1.75cm for man. Meanwhile you have some working experience but your age is about 22 years old. I wonder what's wrong with these companies
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
12 Apr 16
Ya, I wonder what is wrong with them too.
Even if they want to groom the future managers, they can hire just some degree holders, but the rest can be high school leavers.
There is no guarantee that degree holders can do better.
There is also no guarantee that high school leavers just remain as high school leavers. Many of them upgrade their skills and further study to gain specialist degree.
@toniganzon (77247)
• Philippines
12 Apr 16
IN my company, we hire people even without a bachelors degree.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
12 Apr 16
Yeah. It sounds pointless to have a bachelor's degree if you just have to do the basic stuff.
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@besweet (9831)
• Ireland
12 Apr 16
I think that employers are trying to take advantage of their qualifications. Maybe they are not required but they have overqualified college graduates working for them who really need the job, it is an advantage for them to have those employees with degrees without actually paying them for the degrees. This happens a lot in my country as well, I believe they are adding those requiremenets because they have lots of applications and they can have them.
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