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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.
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Emily Knowles sits 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. This is something that I never thought would be possible, Knowles said. (Meredith Nierman/GBH News)
On a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles was testing out apps with her software development team, making sure they work properly.
“This is something that I never thought would be possible,” she said. That’s in part, because the 23-year-old from Watertown, Mass., has some credits but she doesn’t have a college degree.
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Emily Knowles sits 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. This is something that I never thought would be possible, Knowles said. Meredith Nierman/GBH News
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Emily Knowles sits 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. This is something that I never thought would be possible, Knowles said.
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Emily Knowles sits 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. This is something that I never thought would be possible, Knowles said.
On a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles was testing out apps with her software development team, making sure they work properly. This is something that I never thought would be possible, she said. That s in part, because the 23-year-old from Watertown, Mass., has some credits but she doesn t have a college degree.