Frankly a whole lot of jobs out there do NOT require a college degree.
What we need are better internship and apprenticeship programs. And to get hiring managers to pull their heads out of their rectums and realize that a Bachelors Degree should not be the basic entry ticket to the job market.
She had stints in the Portland Zoo marketing department, a kosher frozen yogurt company, and others, she was never paid. Her professors told her doing internships, for no pay, enables her to add these job experiences to her resume, once graduated. She was hired right after graduation, with a resume full of work experience.
Obama changed the apprenticeship program at most schools, he required paid apprentice ships. Not sure the details of his change, but when he did it , his first year, I thought, forcing the companies to pay an unskilled, in training neophyte is not an option for them. He ruined the volunteer apprenticeship programs across the nation.
A little bragging, my daughter Julia, 32 now makes a 6 figure income and has job offers in her inbox every month. She works in the analytic's department for an international PR firm.