[Unnecessary] Standards Go Out The Window As Employers Struggle To Fill Jobs
Getting a job in the United States has never been easier. The U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 3.9 percent in July, the lowest point since 2000, and one new trend is helping: Employers are ditching requirements for college degrees and previous experience.
As of last year, there are more jobs available than people to fill them, so it's time to throw age-old standards out the door.
In the first half of 2018, the share of job postings requesting a college degree fell from 32 percent to 30 percent, according to an analysis by labor-market research firm Burning Glass Technologies covering some 29 million job postings.
Share of posts requiring three or more years of job experience have dropped from 29 percent in 2012 to 23 percent in 2018, which translates to 1.2 million jobs that could be open to less-experienced candidates.
Even better … some one million job openings—for everything from preschool teachers and warehouse workers to e-commerce analysts--have opened up to candidates with "no experience necessary" in the last year.
Some companies no longer even insist on performing criminal background checks or drug testing on the candidates.
So, what started as a recent trend of relaxing job requirements is now becoming the new mantra for businesses trying to attract talent—and keep it at a time when Americans are increasingly job-hopping and shopping around for better deals.
Amy Glaser of staffing agency Adecco Group, told the Wall Street Journal that in a strong economy, job seekers are the ones who get to be choosy about their next job.
"If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day," Glasser said....--
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