Report: ‘Credentials inflation’ locking people out of good jobs

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2. A college degree is the price you pay for a job out of the rain.

employers demand huge amounts of arbitrary education for executive assistants because they can; it's a simple way to weed out applicants.

If you want a middle class life without the college debt, constrain your job search to small companies in your hometown, jobs in which a personal relationship with the decisionmaker gets you in the door.