[etothepii]

Sadly the certificates matter.

After 3 years I've finally convinced my employer to drop the "bachelors degree" requirement from all our job ads but I can't see it making any difference. The way people are hired is totally broken and being able to flash your credentials hugely increases the salaries of most people.

If you don't agree look up how much actuaries get paid. The maths isn't all that hard and 5/7 of the exams to qualify as an associate are just maths and stats.

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Would you care to elaborate on how hiring is still broken?

Has anything actually changes with the pool of candidates and hires the company is making?

[etothepii]

Very few of the metrics that are assessed during interviews are quantified (making bias correction very hard).

It's highly unusual (except maybe at Google) to compare how well someone is doing in a job to how well they were thought they would do that job.

The idiosyncratic nuances of most jobs is hugely underestimated (in the sense that the more specific the prior experience the more it should be discounted).

My suspicion is that we'd all do a lot better if we took all the candidates that applied that we thought "would do" and then drew lots.

We'd probably do even better if we agreed "no fault" severance packages in advance that could be triggered by either party.