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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A college degree - it s a must-have for a lot of jobs in America. Now though, some employers say they are dropping degree requirements for certain jobs, this to diversify their staffs and to gain a market advantage. From member station GBH in Boston, Kirk Carapezza reports.
KIRK CARAPEZZA, BYLINE: Inside her apartment in Watertown, Mass., Emily Knowles meets with her software development team.
EMILY KNOWLES: The config flows, those are all super easy.
CARAPEZZA: Knowles is a quality assurance analyst. And via Zoom, she s testing apps to make sure they work the way they re supposed to. She uses a lot of jargon.
To Diversify Staffs, Some Employers Drop Degree Requirements
Emily Knowles stands outside her apartment in Watertown, Mass. Knowles has some college credits but no degree and works as a quality assurance analyst at Ovia Health, a Boston-based digital company that serves people who are starting families. âThis is something that I never thought would be possible,â Knowles said.
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Inside her apartment in Watertown on a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles met with her software development team remotely, testing apps to make sure they work the way theyâre supposed to.
Knowles, a quality assurance analyst, is bi-racial â a daughter of Black and white immigrants who never went to college. She s working in tech â a field dominated by highly-educated white and Asian men.