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> college serves as a decent filter for separating hirable people from the rest Yes, it's obvious to everyone that a degree is correlated with being hireable b
by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
> college serves as a decent filter for separating hirable people from the rest
Yes, it's obvious to everyone that a degree is correlated with being hireable because having a degree is also correlated with a lot of favourable attributes like intelligence and conscientiousness. If you want a warm body a degree is a good filter.
This is contradictory to strongest/highly capable employees though. For that case, having a degree is an extremely lazy filter. You filter unhireable people, but you also filter extremely hireable people.
- ghaff 3y agoWhich sounds like a pretty reasonable heuristic for a lot of companies absent some other strong signal. Sure, there are probably circumstances where you're willing to swing for the fences on a speculative superstar but a lot of the time you want a reliable bet on someone being solid. For some jobs, e.g. sales, that have strong quantitative metrics it's fine to not worry as much about hiring and just fire anyone who isn't making their numbers. But that works less well with things like engineering positions.