And companies that do change their hiring practices, they add, benefit by tapping previously overlooked pools of talent in a tight labor market, as well as diversifying their work forces. Workers, they say, should be selected and promoted because of their skills and experience rather than degrees or educational pedigree. Work force experts see removing the four-year college degree filter for some jobs as key to increasing diversity and reducing inequality. By 2021, that share had declined to 44 percent. The researchers analyzed millions of online job listings, looking for four-year college degree requirements and trends. The Burning Glass Institute is an independent nonprofit research center, using data from Emsi Burning Glass, a labor-market analytics firm. But the research group’s company-by-company analysis underlines both the potential and the challenge of changing entrenched hiring practices. How has corporate America done so far? There has been a gradual shift overall, according to a recent report and additional data supplied by the Burning Glass Institute. More than 100 companies have made commitments, including the Business Roundtable’s Multiple Pathways program and OneTen, which is focused on hiring and promoting Black workers without college degrees to good jobs.
In the last few years, major American companies in every industry have pledged to change their hiring habits by opening the door to higher-wage jobs with career paths to people without four-year college degrees, like Ms. Griffith, 21, is a cybersecurity technical specialist and earns more than $100,000 a year. After school, an internship and an 18-month apprenticeship, she became a full-time employee at IBM at the end of 2020. She applied, was accepted and thrived in the courses. “There are not many opportunities like that for people like me.” “I thought, ‘This is somewhere I need to be,’” Ms. Its program included high school, an associate degree in a technical subject, an internship and the promise of a good job. As a middle school student in New York, Shekinah Griffith saw a television news report of President Barack Obama visiting an innovative school in Brooklyn.
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