Kamala Harris says she will get rid of 4 year degree requirement for Federal jobs

[Paper Boi]

better forgive the student loans on all them people they scammed into getting a 4 year degree then

 

[Black Panther]

Nah...

Fed jobs pay below the private sector, soon as those demands for higher wages get loud enough and jobs get cut from the budget or the operation gets outsourced to a contractor it won't be all fun and games. Happened to a couple people I knew, I left those jobs before it happened to me.

Contracted positions with the feds allow degree qualification flexibility as is.
Stop lowering the bar as costs rise.

Disagree. I work in IT, and I literally doubled my salary working for the government. (I do the exact same job, except maybe with less responsibility). Plus it's a union job with a pension.

In my private sector job I was an at-will employee that would be fired if I breathed the word "union".

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I remember people being up in arms when DJT wanted to replace certain degree requirements and replace it with a more experience heavy lean. Is there any difference from what Kamala is proposing here?

 

[the cac mamba]

I remember people being up in arms when DJT wanted to replace certain degree requirements and replace it with a more experience heavy lean. Is there any difference from what Kamala is proposing here?

kamala is brat

 

[chkmeout]

Agents all in this bytch

 

[Elim Garak]

I remember people being up in arms when DJT wanted to replace certain degree requirements and replace it with a more experience heavy lean. Is there any difference from what Kamala is proposing here?

Have you read this thread? Half the posters are mad.

 

[Traveler]

she's not an idiot. people with vocational training or apprenticeships can be just as qualified.

At some entry level positions yes. But you need real experience for higher level positions. There are several of us in this thread who have experience with this and said a degree is not required for many jobs. But yall won't listen.

The jobs in which a degree is required tend to be professional positions. Yall want a community college grad to do your tax audit?

She's literally changing nothing but yall are eating it up. We are fukked for the next 4 years no matter what. Both candidates are terrible. I'd be happy just giving Obama 4 more years. Wish Michelle would have thrown her hat in.

 

[Roger king]

This will help alot of black people without college degrees and poor folks who couldn't afford college . This is a solid policy

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Progressive problack coli mad at this
You can’t make this shyt up

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Get rid of degree requirements while making college more affordable and marketing that to Black folk.

I don't have a 4 year degree.
The career I have didn't require it.

But if I did have one, it would have made getting to my current title easier, and I could have started with a higher salary.

Degrees are not useless to jobs that don't require them, but you know that lol.

 

[Diondon]

This is strange. What are these jobs?
Management? Economics?

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

This will actually make it harder to get a federal job. It'll make nepotism and favoritism easier for hiring managers. Not to mention political appointees will be able to fill jobs with their people with little justification. Anyone who's applying for federal jobs now see a trend of internal postings that exclude a lot of applicants.

Also, this is my issue with Harris. She'll present existing ideas like they are new. This is a 2020 article on the subject.

Article: Degree requirements are on the way out for federal jobs

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

The Federal Hiring process is so rigged this won't accomplish a damn thing.

Who the hell is feeding her these dumb policy ideas?

It was already in the works years ago but it started with IT jobs which is justifiable.

 

[br82186]

on the other hand

Trump wants to fire thousands of government workers. Liberals are preparing to fight back if he wins

Former President Donald Trump has plans to radically reshape the federal government if he returns to the White House, from promising to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally to firing tens of thousands of government workers.

apnews.com

He's also trying to move most of the federal bases out of DC and put them throughout the US.

The move works if done right, but this is Trump we talking about and what race works most of those sectors in the DMV? Black folks.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

This is a great idea and stands to benefit black people significantly, I don't see how y'all are against this. On the job learning trumps a formal education (with no experience) so hard too. I think it's better to get people into their field of interest and hands-on sooner, than it is to have them go through 4 years of hoops with no real work to supplement their education (chances are they'll still need extensive training just to get the basic and intermediate aspects of their respective job down).

*It's better for certain fields I should've said.

Real talk and respectfully, it sounds good in theory but that is not how the game is played. The whole college degree requirement in the private sector and federal government was to limit job applicants for each vacancy. People are correct that there are a lot of jobs requiring a degree when it's not needed. The only black people this will help are those already on the inside who are putting their people on which is few. People are ignoring a lot of high-level federal jobs are politically appointed. Dropping the degree requirement will allow them to fill more jobs with own. That's why people are disagreeing with it. Again, sounds good in theory but that is not how the game is played.