HNGlance

Top Best New Show

Don’t Have a College Degree? Your Chances for Unemployment Have Just Doubled

http://jobplotter.com/blog/education-affects-unemployment/

by ragincajun • 14 years ago

1 2 14 years ago

JO

Related Stories

Loading related stories...

Comments

2

timaelliott• 14 years ago

Nice try, overpriced US universities and for-profit degree mills.

tokenadult• 14 years ago

How did that work out for Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg?

Anyway, it's a drag at any level of education to not have a job, but there are plenty of unemployed people even with postgraduate degrees. More worrisome, perhaps, is that degrees are not good proxies for good performance on the job,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165474

so instead any smart employer newly hiring a job applicant will be giving that job applicant a work-sample test. It's possible for young people with a computer science degree to fail to get past a coding test for a programming job, so even some of the most desired college degrees are not a guarantee of employment.

Source preview

jobplotter.com

HNGlance

© 2024-2026 HN Glance. Story content belongs to its original sources.

Privacy
Terms