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LinkedIn CEO says college degrees may get too much weight — Staffing quote of the week

November 22, 2016

“Historically here, there’s been a tremendous amount of weight that’s been given to four-year university degrees and not nearly enough weight in my opinion is given to vocational training facilities and vocational training certifications,” San Francisco Business Times reported LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said this week. “We would do much better if we stopped ensuring that everyone had to have a four-year degree to get certain types of jobs and started being open to the fact that there’s a much broader array of talents and skills and perspectives and experiences that people can be successful.”