Our Overeducated Workforce Summary

Citation:
Jack Metzgar, “Our Overeducated Workforce: Who Benefits?”

Central Thesis: The key claims the author makes in this article are that it is becoming more difficult for college graduates to find jobs that require a college degree and have a higher salary. The author also discusses how the research that says a college degree is needed in today’s society to get a job is faulty.

Summary: One of the main points Metzgar makes in this article is that there are not enough “college jobs” for all of the students who are graduating college. In fact, according to reliable sources cited in the article, only two out of three college graduates will be hired for a “college job.” The future projections look even worse because only one-third of

Many different companies and organizations claim that “experts” have found evidence that there is not enough college graduates in our work force actually only refer to one “expert,” Anthony Carnevale. Carnevale is the director on the Georgetown University Center of Education and the Workforce, which receive major funds from Lumina, which is a non-profit foundation that helps provide money to Americans to receive college degrees. This, along with being the only researcher in this area, makes Carnevale an unreliable source of information. He gets most of his results by looking at well-respected public opinion surveys and also considers jobs that do not require a college degree, but pay college graduates more than non-college-graduates to be defined as a “college

He uses reliable data provided mainly by the government. He gives eye-opening statistics on how hard it may be to find a job after college. Metzgar also provides credible information that breaks down certain companies’ claims that a college degree is needed in today’s society to get a job. Although he does not give many examples of what the job market and selection will necessarily be like in the next year or two, he suggests how likely it will be for a college graduate to get a “college job.” He provided a better definition for what a “college job” is than Carnevale did. He implies that his definition is that a “college job” requires a college degree to get hired, rather than being paid more than employees who don’t have a college