Top Reasons Why You ABSOLUTELY Need a College Degree

[Vle045]

There’s always an exception to the rule. And an exception fallacy.

The topic could make an interesting research paper.

[sanantone]

There’s always an exception to the rule. And an exception fallacy.  

The topic could make an interesting research paper.  

This isn't an exception fallacy when over a dozen college majors, most of them popular college majors, mostly lead to underemployment. There's already a lot of research on this, which is where my information is coming from. Considering that there are hundreds of thousands of people choosing less marketable degrees every year, it doesn't help to put out blanket statements that say that a college degree will always keep you employed.

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"The claim is that you will always have a job during a recession, which is not true."
Lol who's making that claim? Somebody a bit lacking in common sense perhaps.

LevelUP did say that. I am inclined to agree that he's mostly right. During a recession, people with degrees are going to be preferred over people without a degree. Will it be a good job? Maybe not. But when tons of people are unemployed, even McDonald's starts preferring people with higher education over people who aren't educated.

You also run the risk of being considered overqualified for many jobs. There are jobs where a degree is not helpful at all, jobs that have an overt or covert preference for degrees, and jobs that require degrees. There might be a help desk job that doesn't require a degree, but they have a preference for recent graduates of IT programs. Then, you have jobs that don't want to waste any resources on recruiting, onboarding, and training college graduates for low-skilled jobs because they'll leave as soon as a higher paying job becomes available. There are also jobs that will take anyone, with or without a degree, because they're desperate for workers.

Back to correlation /= causation, how does one know they landed a job because of their degree when a degree was neither required nor expressly preferred? Did the person happen to be more articulate in the interview? Did they score higher on a pre-employment assessment? Could it be that this person went to college and was able to graduate because they had already been academically successful in high school, and they naturally have a higher aptitude in certain areas?