>>222642Sure
I'm a britfag and we have a fine grain higher education and degree system here.
Instead of "community college degree" or whatever, it's a National Qualification (NQ) which is a one year course in a college/university setting for learning which, if you don't want to continue with after the year, you graduate with a dinky little certificate. You can then go on to a second 1 year course called a HNC, from there to a third year course called a HND, from there directly into a bachelors degree (3rd year in university), from there to a masters - I personally did this. So after mandatory schooling, you can spend 1-5 years according to your ability and get a corresponding recognition of and certification in something to that 'degree' of skill.
Since it's so easy and - at least when I was doing recruitment - free for most people, if you *didn't* have that at least, it was a reasonable assumption there was something wrong with you and we, the recruiting agency, presenting you to our clients would look bad on *us*, never mind *you*. Therefore, without a degree of some kind we didn't waste the man-hour turning your cv into a product we could sell to an employer.
That was before OpenAI automation. I dread to think what it's like now.