“… Google and Hilton are just two of the champion companies who realize that book smarts don’t necessarily equal strong work ethic, grit and talent. Whether you have your GED and are looking for a new opportunity or charting your own path beyond the traditional four-year college route, here are 15 companies that have said they do not require a college diploma for some of their top jobs. Your dream role awaits!” …
Glad to see baggers, cashiers and housekeepers don’t need college degrees.
It scares me that Big 4 accounting firm EY (Ernst & Young) is on this list.
No, it scares me people think you walk into a software designer or marketing designer or editor jobs with just a hs degree, green. We’ve got to read more than headlines before we get all excited about big news that, hey, college is expensive, you can skip the degree.
We have enough trouble getting hs kids to think critically about college chances. This article serves glassdoor. Not the young CC population.
And some of those great opportunities are going to be pitifully low pay and kept at under 32 hours/week. You want this to be encouraging?
First, the E&Y on the list is in the UK. Second, they do not list which jobs. don’t require a college degree.
In the times of plenty IT and software jobs do not require a college degree. Job ads would ask for a degree or equivalent experience. In these fields certifications and authored code publicly posted on the Internet can compensate for the lack of degrees. Many people currently working in these fields have a degree in something not related to computers or tech. But as soon as there is an economic downturn these positions will ask for a degree (and preferably in STEM).
I am wondering how many mechanical engineers without engineering degree are working at Google? They do not list a BA/BS as a hard requirement but their preferred qualification is a Master degree and/or Professional Engineer
For some highly skilled jobs (e.g. software developer), a degree may not be a hard requirement, but the expectation is an suitable level of self-education or other education relevant to the needs of the job. But it is often the case that most people find that studying for a relevant degree (e.g. computer science degree for a software job) will work out better than self-education, which is successful mainly for those with the highest ability and motivation in the subject in order to learn it, and have some way of proving it to employers.
I work in technology at a big company that’s not on the list. Google may not require a bachelor’s degree in general, but I know plenty of people who work at Google - for the jobs they have listed that they are hiring for, they definitely are not hiring high school graduates or people with associate’s degrees (except the intern position). Research scientists at Google need to have at least a master’s degree and most of them have PhDs, and the vast majority of people with the other job titles on the list have at least a BA/BS. There are always a few developers, project managers, etc., who don’t have college degrees - but most of them worked their way up over a LONG period of time and started in low-paying positions, often at other companies.
With Apple, of course you can get jobs in their retail stores as a Genius or technical product specialist without a college degree (although secret, you’re more competitive if you have one - a lot of those retail/sales associates are in college or have a bachelor’s).
For a place like EY, a lot of those positions (like auditor) have licensing requirements. I highly doubt EY is hiring a senior manager of financial services without a bachelor’s degree these days.
The other thing is that just because something isn’t a requirement doesn’t mean that a given applicant is competitive. Most people applying for the positions at these desirable, competitive companies are going to have bachelor’s degrees, and so someone without one will be competing with lots of great applicants that have one, plus experience.