<p>You said that “the most educated college graduates from prestigious schools don’t necessarily have the experience to do well on the job” but my thought is that they may not have the brains to do the job. Succeeding in school requires only a subset of the mental skills an employer might need.</p>
<p>Given person A who has some specific experience an employer is looking for (e.g. experience with X program), and person B who does not, but has the greater ability to learn and problem solve, I have observed that employers will hire person A. But they might be better off hiring the person that lacks some specific skill but has the means to learn many skills. The book “The Hand” would say they’d be better off hiring someone who has learned a manual skill of some sort since they have developed those portions of their brain. (It’s an interesting book, btw).</p>