The presence of bullshit skill requirements is an indication of supply:demand mismatch. Employers only do that when there are too many qualified candidates and

The presence of bullshit skill requirements is an indication of supply:demand mismatch. Employers only do that when there are too many qualified candidates and they need fast ways to reduce the potential pool. You can re-state your point that "there aren't enough jobs for college grads" as "there are fewer jobs that require a college degree than people with college degrees" Society needs: lawyers, janitors, computer programmers, bus drivers, etc. There are other imbalances in the labor-training market: we're currently over-producing lawyers, and under producing programmers.