Peabody said:aircooled said:And this is one reason why you see what might be called "degree inflation". Many jobs seem to have unjustifiable degree requirements because collage degrees have become so much more common, it is now a measure of if you have a typical / reasonable education. Kind of like how having a high school diploma used to mean you had some basic qualities, weather what you learned was necessary in the job or not.
In my situation I see a lot of incompetence in the human resources role.
Companies ask for Inter provincial, and "Red seal" licenses for my trade when they can't even get people with a standard license. When I've asked during interviews why the requirement, nobody has been able to answer satisfactorily. Some didn't even know what the difference was.
HR is just like any other group. Most aren't particularly well informed about actual needs but they do know how to check off boxes.
A lot of their practices were developed when America was recovering from the 2008 recession and millions of people were sending out Email resumes for any position. HR needed some way to sort through the hundreds of applications so if some box wasn't checked off they had reason to discard the application.
As the economy started to recover, instead of looking for people with the right attitude they kept on checking off boxes. Legitimately qualified people were discarded in favor of those who simply parroted back job requirements.
HR really isn't good at knowing what the right attitude is. Or deciding who should get an interview without those boxes. They need some way to weed out poor candidates. So management thinks HR is doing a good job at prescreening.