Employers across a range of industries are dropping a job requirement once considered a ticket to a higher paying job and financial security: a college degree.

Today’s tight labor market has led more companies instead to take a more skills-based approach to hiring, as evidenced on job search sites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.

“Part of it is employers realizing they may be able to do a better job finding the right talent by looking for the skills or competencies someone needs to do the job and not letting a degree get in the way of that,” Parisa Fatehi-Weeks, senior director of environmental, social and governance (ESG) for hiring platform Indeed told CBS MoneyWatch.

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    1 year ago

    We programmers share our knowledge freely in user manuals, tutorials, articles and YouTube videos.

    But in my experience the only thing that I see slowing down new programmers is motivation. You can’t really learn code without having a reason to apply what you’ve learned. You have to come up with a reason first, That’s my best advice.

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      1 year ago

      I have ideas of things to do, but since I am starting from 0, I don’t even know what language to aim for, or what is a reasonable project to start with. I feel like I could definitely figure things out on my own from tutorials if I just had some basic primer about what’s out there and what things are typically designed to do.

      I don’t know what I don’t know, so it is hard to know what questions I need to ask.