{"id":28591,"date":"2023-02-07T04:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workingteddy.com\/?p=28591"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:23:33","slug":"jobs-without-a-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/jobs-without-a-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs Without a Degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Georgia Senate advances bill cutting college degree requirements for state jobs<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>GA would join states such as CO and MD in eliminating some degree requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Georgia Senate committee is advancing a bill that would instruct an agency to examine qualifications for state government jobs and not require a college degree unless truly necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Government Oversight Committee on Monday voted for Senate Bill 3, sending it to the full Senate for more debate.<\/p>\n<p>The bill calls for the state Department of Administrative Services to try to reduce training, experience and educational requirements for jobs and reduce jobs that require a four-year college degree.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Albers, a Roswell Republican sponsoring the measure, said that the reexamination is needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where we used to mandate a college degree for almost everything, now we\u2019re looking at that differently, either through technical school or certifications,&#8221; Albers said.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia would be one of a number of states to make the move. Others who have done so include Maryland under Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Colorado among Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. It&#8217;s a reaction to difficulties in attracting workers in a tight labor market, the high cost of college, and Republican distrust of the ideological effects of college education.<\/p>\n<p>Some studies also show that private companies have reduced requirements for college degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Senate advances bill cutting college degree requirements for state jobs GA would join states such as CO and MD in eliminating some degree requirements A Georgia Senate committee is advancing a bill that would instruct an agency to examine qualifications for state government jobs and not require a college degree unless truly necessary. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3684,3696,3706,3712,3699,3700,3694,3695,3692,3713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-business","category-education","category-employment","category-finance","category-financial","category-it","category-jobs","category-news","category-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}