Canva, WiseTech Global and Culture Amp are among a rising number of companies that have relaxed or eliminated degree requirements from job ads to improve recruitment and make their workforces more diverse.. It encourages managers to assess a candidate’s suitability based on skills, instead of what they’ve done in the past.
was the main driver behind design software giant Canva’s decision to its drop degree requirements from job ads in 2020, says Charlotte Anderson, the company’s attraction, belonging and community lead.Just 32 per cent of people aged 15 to 74 in Australia held a bachelor’s degree or above last year, ABS data shows.
“It’s not, ‘what is the next rung that I’m going for?’ It’s equally respected to go .”Like Canva, Culture Amp and WiseTech also claim recent improvements in their workforce diversity were partly driven by the decision to stop requiring job candidates to hold a degree. “This is important, as at our heart, we are a product-led company with 62 per cent of our global workforce – and almost two-thirds of our Australian team – in technical roles that produce world-class software code that solves global problems for the international logistics industry,” McMenamin says.that breakthroughs often come when people with different skill sets and backgrounds come together, as this helps teams find new ways of solving old problems.