When Did This Happen?

[forsyth]

When did a college education change from an education into job training that you pay for yourself? Because that's all a lot of degrees have become these days. And the costs keep going up, too. And you pretty much need a college education for almost any halfway decent job today. Nice setup for the companies, innit?

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[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Places will do it if they really want to hire someone from inside, but for legal or bureaucratic reasons have to go through the motions of at least pretending to consider external applicants.

And it's true about requirements often being set way higher than they need to be on the paperwork. Especially in large companies, where the people writing the job requirements are often completely different from the people who will be doing the actual interviews. Just apply for everything, regardless of what the ad says.