Are there fewer jobs for those with Bachelors’ degrees or are those degrees not required as often?

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article entitled, “The White-Collar Hiring Rut Is Here. That’s Bad News for Young College Grads.”

The author examined the number of job postings that include as a requirement that the candidate has a Bachelors’ degree or higher, notes that the number has declined in recent years, and infers that there has been a massive decrease in the number of these graduates being hired by Fortune 500 employers.

Brent Skinner, host of the Small Talk Window Podcast and the founder of Open Windows Strategies, is joined by Steven Rothberg, founder of College Recruiter, for a discussion about the author’s inference was correct or if something else is happening. Brent and Steven, in a spirited discussion, agree that the numbers largely reflect that employers are finally eliminating degree requirements for roles that never really needed them in the first place. Think scope creep. For example, who really needs a college degree to go into automobile sales?