Experience in the specific technology combinations a particular organization wants is usually the "bottleneck", not raw education. Companies don't want to wait

Experience in the specific technology combinations a particular organization wants is usually the "bottleneck", not raw education. Companies don't want to wait for nor pay for the learning curve: they want plug-and-play employees with paid hands-on experience matching their tools. But that's not realistic because the combinations they want are too specific. A person having a thousand college degrees won't fit the way companies frame their expectations. Note that I'm mostly talking about non-IT companies hiring IT workers. An IT-centric company like Google or Microsoft may take a different angle.