Imagine this scenario: you find a job offer that's perfect for you, requiring exactly the kind of skills you have. But you can't apply, or if you do, you're rejected because the position requires a university degree you don't possess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WORK LIMITATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 70 million people in the USA are affected by not having a degree, including many undocumented professionals or self-taught individuals who cross the border in search of a better quality of life and with the desire to find jobs that match their skills, according to estimates from the NGO Opportunity at Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WHO HITS THE CEILING?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Workers known as STARs* who acquired their skills and knowledge on the job, through non-university training courses and\/or programs, among other means. * (acronym for "trained through alternative pathways") <\/p>\n\n\n\n LABOR CRISIS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In general, the number of workers without a bachelor's degree is even higher among minorities; 62.1% of those over 25 do not have a bachelor's degree, but that percentage increases to 72.1% for African Americans and 79.1% for Latinos. *According to the U.S. Census Bureau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n WHAT EFFECTS DOES IT HAVE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unskilled jobs such as construction, agriculture, waiters, baristas and\/or hotels among others, that is, cheap and poorly paid labor, in addition to having a wage gap between those with a university degree and those without, which has doubled during the last 40 years, according to Opportunity at Work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n REQUIREMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Job offers that were generally for people with average skills who could apply with high school diplomas, now establish a university degree as a minimum requirement, a credential that only a third of the adult population possesses according to the NGO report Opportunity at Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REALITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Opportunity at Work<\/em>, STARs* represent more than 501,000 people in the U.S. workforce, including 611,000 African Americans and 551,000 Hispanics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE SOLUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The more large companies that join organizations like Chevron, Accenture (where only 261% of their positions require a degree), Google, IBM (where 291% of positions require a degree), LinkedIn, Comcast, and Walmart to raise awareness in the United States about the "paper ceiling" and encourage employers to abandon this practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n News report compiled from: Washington Examiner and BBC News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 70 million people in the USA are affected by not having a degree, including many undocumented professionals or self-taught individuals who cross the border in search of a better quality of life and with the desire to find jobs that match their skills, according to estimates from the NGO Opportunity at Work <\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}