What can be said - is that recessions and hiring stops send people back to schools, and you suddenly have a lot of people with Masters degrees applying for the

What can be said - is that recessions and hiring stops send people back to schools, and you suddenly have a lot of people with Masters degrees applying for the same jobs. Tech could very well be immune against credential inflation like that (because of the growth) - but others are not. There are industries where you don't even get interviews unless you hold a graduate degree - precisely because there are too many applicants with graduate degrees. Maybe more relevant to the niche positions within tech (data science, for example)