Recently, the job review site Glassdoor compiled a list of 15 different companies that don't require job applicants¹ to have college degrees.

最近，职业点评网站Glassdoor编纂了一份榜单，罗列了15家不要求应聘者拥有大学文凭的公司。

The list includes high-paying tech outlets² like Apple, Google, and IBM, in addition to service-oriented companies like Costco, Starbucks, and Chipotle.

苹果、谷歌和IBM等高薪科技公司，以及好市多、星巴克和Chipotle等服务型企业均榜上有名。

"Academic qualifications will still be taken into account and indeed remain an important consideration when assessing candidates as a whole, but will no longer act as a barrier to getting a foot in the door," Maggie Stilwell, Ernst and Young's managing partner for talent, told the Huffington Post when that company dropped the requirement.

在安永会计师事务所弃用大学文凭这一录用条件后，该事务所的人才招聘管理合伙人玛吉·史迪威尔向《赫芬顿邮报》透露：“公司在招聘时仍会考虑学历，在对应聘者进行总体评估时，学历仍然是重要的考量因素，但不再是招录的一道门槛。”

In other words: Companies will hire the candidates whose experience and skills best suit them for the job. Many of those successful applicants will have university degrees. Some of them will not.

换言之，公司将招聘经验和能力最适合某个职位的人。未来，被录用的应聘者中很多都会有大学学位，有些则没有。

Google acknowledged several years ago that college transcripts³ and test scores are worthless predictors of later job performance.

几年前，谷歌公司就曾坦言，大学成绩单和考试成绩并不能预测日后的工作表现。

At IBM, where roughly 15% of new hires in the US don't have college degrees, CEO Ginni Rometty has said that vocational courses and on-the-job experience offer more relevant training for many tech sector⁴ positions than a four-year college degree.

IBM公司在美国新招聘的人中，约15%没有大学文凭，首席执行官金尼·罗梅蒂表示，对于许多技术领域的岗位而言，职业课程和在职经历所提供的培训内容比4年的大学学历更具关联性。

It's not that college degrees are useless. For many people, university is the place where they acquire skills employers value. But automatically discounting people who earn that same knowledge through a different path can be counterproductive.

这并不意味着大学学位就没有用。对许多人而言，大学里可以获得雇主看重的技能。但自动筛除那些通过另一种途径获得相同知识的人，却会产生反效果。

Which hypothetical resume offers a more convincing case for a candidate's work ethic⁵ or motivation: one from a recent college graduate who majored in computer science, or that of a self-taught coder who acquired those same skills while also managing full-time⁶ employment? What a person knows is more important than how they learned it.

哪一种简历更能证明应聘者的职业道德或工作积极性？是刚毕业的计算机科学专业大学生，还是自学成才并有全职工作经验的码农？一个人真正获得的知识积累比获得知识的途径更重要。