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You are completely right, and I certainly thought about whether I should explicitly refer to these programs... I guess the crux of my issue is that employers st

You are completely right, and I certainly thought about whether I should explicitly refer to these programs... I guess the crux of my issue is that employers still want to see people have a college degree + trade skills, and not just trade skills alone. Reasons being that they simply aren't getting enough educational foundation in high school anymore, plus it creates an overall better skilled / prepared individual. So if there is a way we can get people both practical skills AND at least a two year degree's worth of general ed, we're better off as a society.

gruez 5y ago
>I guess the crux of my issue is that employers still want to see people have a college degree + trade skills, and not just trade skills alone. Is this actually true? ie. are they seriously looking for welders that know how to weld and have a college degree? I doubt that's the case. My impression is that all of the "you need a college degree even though it's not really needed" kind of jobs are entry level service jobs, or jobs that otherwise have a flood of applicants. College degree is used as a filter in those situations just to whittle down the huge applicant pool, not because the applicants "simply aren't getting enough educational foundation in high school anymore".