It’s no mystery why there are millions of jobs to be filled and milions of people seeking jobs. That’s what happened when you flood the labor market with millions upon millions of unskilled workers.
11% of people who work at or below minimum wage or for tips have bachelor’s degrees. 50% of people with engineering degrees work outside of engineering. Unemployment among architects is still at double-digit levels.
Employers are NOT going to find someone with 15 years of experiencing coding Python or Ruby on Rails and a Masters’ in Comp Sci to take entry-level jobs. And literally millions of these job offerings don’t actually exist; they are ploys to comply with regulations.
A study by the Department of Education in 2008 found that 5% of recent ‘college graduates’ are illiterate, and another 20% read at the 5th-grade level.
So the minimum-wage workers with bachelor’s degrees may just be doing the best they can with the skills they’ve got...