>government jobs almost always have a hard degree requirement. There are a surprising number of loopholes. For example, many federal engineering jobs require a

>government jobs almost always have a hard degree requirement. There are a surprising number of loopholes. For example, many federal engineering jobs require any one of the following: 1) A bachelors degree in engineering 2) Sufficient college coursework without a degree with relevant experience 3) A non-engineering degree with sufficient engineering coursework 4) passing the engineers in training (EIT) exam with relevant experience (which doesn't necessarily require a degree to sit for) 5) A professional engineer (PE) license (which, in some cases, doesn't require any college) I do think HR is biased towards just looking for degrees. Probably out of either laziness or risk-aversion.