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Originally Posted by mosdef
The weird part about it is that even when I went to university (which was a long time ago) the university had turned completely into a degree mill taking in anyone that could pay and ****ting out tons of lazy stupid idiots with generous "Cs" that I wouldn't want working at my company, even in a dead end job. University has been a poor proxy for workplace potential for years and years.
Setting aside whether this is true (and, of course, at the extreme it's not: selective universities are just that), it doesn't have to be a great proxy, it just has to be enough of a signal that it's usable.
When there are plenty of young, unemployed college graduates, what's the incentive to look for young, unemployed people without that credential? If you are on the side of the argument that "college degrees are worthless" then it's not like you have to pay more for the credentialed applicants...
It just has to be effective enough that it saves some work for whoever in HR is sorting resumes at your comapny for that "dead end" job.