Credentialism in the 21st Century: The Importance of Qualifications

Credentials were first used in the nineteenth century, with the primary purpose of protecting the public by showing the competence of the

“Credentialism”, a concept coined by social scientists in the 1970s, is the reduction of qualifications to status conferring pieces of paper

credentialise The indirect cost to the employer grows, as time and money are wasted looking for and training hirees, only for them to leave after a short

credentialise Abstract The aim of this article is to examine critically—through a review of human capital and screening theories—the foundation of factional pressures for