On Tuesday, there was a girl at the smallgroup I attended that said she was looking for a job, probably an administration type job. The company I work at said they were going to hire an office admin when they moved to a new office, which will be happening in the near future. I suggested that possibility, and she seemed interesting, so I said I'd get more information from work.
I got the job description and looked it over. They have "Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university" listed as a requirement. What about office administration requires a Bachelor's degree?
Some back story..
When I got hired, they didn't have an office admin, and they still don't. As such, the responsibilities fell onto my team(not quite sure how that worked), and since I was the new guy, it landed on me. This continued until earlier this year, when I got a new boss and he declared it sill for a Computer Scientist to be doing office tasks.
My point of telling that is to say, I know what is required of an office admin, and I can assure you that a bachelor's degree is not needed. Is it just me, or does that seem a bit extreme to have that as a requirement? There are plenty of really intelligent, hard working people who don't hold degrees, and they shouldn't need to.