> That line in the job requirements that specifies you must have a college degree -- is that unnecessarily excluding a lot of qualified candidates? Outside of

> That line in the job requirements that specifies you must have a college degree -- is that unnecessarily excluding a lot of qualified candidates? Outside of careers requiring vocational degrees (like engineering), yes - but for any job posting simply requiring a degree (any degree) has a valuable selective effect of eliminating swathes of objectively unqualified and less-qualified candidates and thus shrinking the pool of people you'd need to call-in for an on-site interview - even though many objectively qualified but non-degree-holding candidates would be eliminated unfairly. It's a trade-off based around how much value you assign to your recruiter's time.