>50% of college graduates are working in jobs that don't require degrees

This isn't really news to anyone, but the headline dramatically understates the actual situation if we extend beyond the conventional understanding of 'jobs that require a college degree'

What the article discusses are lower-paying, non-"professional" jobs that don't include a degree as a required qualification, however the majority of jobs which do "require" a college degree (your typical non-specialist corporate role, for ex.) only use that requirement as a filtering mechanism when hiring. That "requirement" doesn't actually reflect a need for any specific knowledge/experience that might result from getting a college degree, which is evident when we consider those hiring for these positions don't usually care what degree an applicant has - only that they can tick off the "college degree" checkbox.

Well college students spend their entire life having someone tell them what to do and for the first time they need to figure out things in their own.

They’ve also been told to “just learn to code” and are shocked pikachu when someone with a 4 month boot camp is more employable than them in software.

Is it that the jobs do not absolutely require college degrees, but the degree is very nice to have? Or is it that the hiring mangers do not give any credence at all to college degrees?

I teach community college. I have the work experience to teach continuing education (CE) classes without my masters degree, but the masters degree helps. Am I a college graduate working in a job that does not require a college degree?