[mistercow]

>“a college degree can be helpful, but we just want someone that’s smart and dedicated.”

I thought that the reason job posters mention needing a degree is that if you don't, the assumption many job seekers will make is that it's a "learn on the job" situation. You'd end up with a thousand applications from people with no experience who thought "Well, I know my way around MS Word pretty well, so how hard can this be?"