That's very valid because Recruiters are dumb confused. I'm an undergraduate engineer with decent experience in Analytics and my resume doesn't even get into so

That's very valid because Recruiters are dumb confused. I'm an undergraduate engineer with decent experience in Analytics and my resume doesn't even get into some company because I don't have Masters while my friend who did an MS in Data science from UK is also not getting a job because she just pivoted her career from Mainframe to data science with that MS and they don't want a fresher. Hence you are left with a minimal talent pool that gets to hop here and there increasing their market value while the demand doesn't reduce and at the same time with this fancy word PHD every company is ants to get them or at least an MS just for God knows what reason. In an ideal scenario, You are just exploring data and getting actionable insights ( I'm not talkign about publishing paper nor programming self.driving cars). I'm an average guy knowing R and Python with Pandas and Scikit learn. Anyone who can connect the dots can learn these tools and become a good data scientist, but the blind belief of these recruiters just kill those hope and look for the hardly available job hoppers. Such a paradox self created by them.