IMHO the micro degrees, and MOOC courses in general, can help if you already have the needed requirements and use it to support extras listed as 'wants'. Of co

IMHO the micro degrees, and MOOC courses in general, can help if you already have the needed requirements and use it to support extras listed as 'wants'. Of course if the list of NEEDED skills is more than 5, then they usually do not know what they really need and a micro degree for all of their listed requirements would work. In addition, the micros could provide the difference between two candidates. "Yeah they are about the same, but this one spends time learning more, and you know we are considering opening the left-handed smoke shifter division and his micro skills would be an asset there"