Using technology to redefine education for employment

HERE'S an interesting statistic from a 2014 labour survey by burning-glass.com: 65 per cent of new job postings for executive secretaries and executive assistants now call for a bachelor's degree, but "only 19 per cent of those currently employed in these roles have a BA". So four-fifths of secretaries today would not be considered for two-thirds of the job postings in their own field because they do not have a four-year degree to do the job they are already doing!

The study noted that an "increasing number of job seekers face being shut out of middle-skill, middle-class occupati…