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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Some Companies Are Dropping College-Degree Requirements for New Hires

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Many companies, including Delta, are waiving the college degree requirement in their job listings. But it doesn’t always lead to those without degrees being hired. Wall Street Journal reporter Lauren Weber joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Tuesday February 27th. I'm J.R. Wayland for the Wall Street Journal.

0:47.0

About two-thirds of Americans don't have a college degree, but many companies don't see that as a barrier

0:54.3

preventing them from applying for jobs. So at a time when unemployment is very low

0:59.3

companies have lots of openings they want to fill. If you're already making those jobs out of reach

1:05.9

to a majority of Americans, that's

1:09.8

going to make it even harder to fill those jobs.

1:11.7

So a lot of companies are rethinking why those

1:14.0

degree requirements are there in the first place. But is that resulting in more

1:18.2

in non-college grads being hired? We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter

1:22.3

Lauren Weber after the break. For brands in the digital age, content is the customer experience.

1:35.0

That's why industry leaders like KFC, male chimp, and BMW rely on the contentful

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composable content platform to easily create, collaborate, manage,

1:44.6

and deliver content across all channels, resulting in meaningful customer

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