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Why Your Degree Filter Might Be Costing You the Best Talent (And What AI Has to Do With It)
In my recent LinkedIn post, I shared some striking data from Peter Diamandis about the collapse in perceived value of university degrees. Job postings requiring degrees have dropped 6% since 2019 in the US, whilst college graduates now make up a third of the long-term unemployed. But here’s the question I keep coming back to: why? It’s not that education itself has become worthless. It’s that the gap between what’s taught and what’s needed has become a chasm. By the time a st