Nowadays, although some people are getting employed, their jobs are much more menial than their education. For example, people who are expected to political scientists become bartenders. According to a report, mal-employment increased by 9.3 percent for college students from 2000 to 2010. The result is partially due to the Great Recession in 2008.
Actually, college graduates did much better than people with a high school degree. Therefore, to this point, the graduate qualification seems to be fairly important. Since companies only have limited jobs released, they prefer more skilled workers.
The mal-employment triggers a noticeable problem that those mal-employed people earn half of what their degree-appropriately peers earn. For people in cool majors such as liberal-art and humanities, they face more serious problems in finding matched jobs. However, it does not means that cool majors are not worth studying. People in cool majors are also supposed to have certain social skills as people in other majors. If those people want to break down the barriers, what they have to do is to have a positive mentality and to learn more practical skills to adjust to the social trend.