{"id":14441,"date":"2025-03-21T02:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2025-03-21T02:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:20:49","slug":"meet-lafawn-davis-a-c-suite-executive-at-indeed-who-dropped-out-of-college-and-proved-you-dont-need-a-degree-to-land-a-top-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14441","title":{"rendered":"Meet LaFawn Davis: A C-suite executive at Indeed who dropped out of college and proved you don\u2019t need a degree to land a top job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When LaFawn Davis was growing up, she didn\u2019t dream of becoming an astronaut, a doctor, or a teacher\u2026she dreamed of becoming the CEO of seven companies, at once.<\/p>\n

This ambition inspired a strong work ethic, one that propelled Davis into the workforce at 14, when she took her first job at a Black-owned flower shop in her hometown of San Jose, California. And once she started working, she never stopped.<\/p>\n

Despite her strong work ethic, Davis\u2014who landed her current job as Indeed\u2019s chief people and sustainability officer in May 2024\u2014told HR Brew that her career hasn\u2019t always been smooth, in part because she didn\u2019t have a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told that because I didn\u2019t have a college degree, there were certain roles I couldn\u2019t go for. I was a believer that, regardless of what the job description says, if I felt like I could do it, I would go for it anyway,\u201d Davis told HR Brew.<\/p>\n

But she isn\u2019t the only HR pro without a bachelor\u2019s degree. Just 31% of people pros in the US have achieved that level of education, according to an HR Brew\/Harris Poll survey conducted in September. Some 12% have an associate\u2019s degree, while 30% have a high school diploma and 8% have less. Meanwhile, 18% have a graduate degree.<\/p>\n

Davis shared with HR Brew how she climbed the corporate ladder without a four-year college degree.<\/p>\n

Career journey.\u00a0<\/strong>After graduating high school, Davis enrolled at San Jos\u00e9 State University. But she said she found herself skipping classes to go to work and decided to drop out and join corporate America. She worked in operational roles at startups during the dotcom era, but when that bubble burst in 2000, she lost her job. And without a bachelor\u2019s degree, Davis said she was turned away from new opportunities.<\/p>\n

So at 22, with a newborn to care for, she made the difficult decision to move home with her parents. But she was still determined to rejoin the corporate workforce and fulfill her childhood dream of becoming an executive.<\/p>\n

During those post-dotcom years, Davis said she leaned heavily on her network of corporate contacts, who helped her find work as a claims adjustor, executive assistant, and chief of staff. Each role taught her a new admin or people skill. Then, in 2005, she got her big break\u2014she was hired as a program specialist at Google<\/a>, where she would work for eight years, ending her tenure as its HR business partner for diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really focus[ed] on a lot of HR programs and initiatives and how diversity, equity, inclusion can be woven throughout the whole process of the employee life cycle,\u201d she said. \u201cI really loved it, and I thought I found what my career path was going to be, as opposed to a job. I felt like I was actually embarking upon a career.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Google, Davis said she played a game of \u201ctech company roulette,\u201d moving between employee experience and DEI roles at firms including Yahoo!, eBay<\/a>, and Paypal. In 2019, nearly 15 years into her HR career, she landed at Indeed as a VP of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.<\/p>\n

Skills-first is the future. <\/strong>Davis said she was lucky to have had so many opportunities to break into corporate America without a bachelor\u2019s degree, and wishes the skills-based hiring her employers practiced were more common.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe skills-first movement is not anti-college degree at all\u2026It is more that a college degree is just not the only route to gaining skills, and helping both people and companies understand what it means to hire for skills,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Davis said she used to be \u201cashamed\u201d that she didn\u2019t have a four-year college degree. Nowadays, she enjoys sharing her story, and uses it to inform her work at Indeed, where she strives to make the application process easier for candidates by encouraging companies to adopt a skills-first approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that I said when I came into Indeed was, \u2018We need to drink our own champagne\u2026Whatever we\u2019re going to ask other companies to do, we need to do it ourselves,\u201d she said, adding that Indeed dropped college-degree requirements from its corporate job postings in 2022, and calls itself a fair chance employer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be the CEO of seven consecutive companies at the same time,\u201d she said, but \u201cbecoming part of the C-suite, knowing along the journey that I don\u2019t have a college degree, has been a great space of inspiration for others to know they could do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report was written by Mikaela Cohen<\/em> and was originally published<\/a> by <\/em>HR Brew.<\/p>\n

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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