[kaizendad]

This is great! A college degree can really help in a lot of careers (and I say this as someone with both a college and a grad degree), but rarely is it actually essential. It's not often even a good proxy for knowing that someone can do something. Direct measures of ability, such as reviewing past work, or even tests of certain types, are going to be much better at actually assessing whether or not someone can do the job, and also make jobs accessible to people from backgrounds that might make getting a college degree hard, but have no effect on whether or not a given individual can do a given job.