I am a highschool dropout, so I am perhaps not the best judge of this, but I later worked on-campus at a major university and befriended many students, most of whom struggled to find employment after graduation.

I would counter that education, at least in the USA, does not adequately prepare one for life, the real world, and effectively finding employment.

What ACTUALLY mattered in my life turned out to be:

1. Who you know, and by proxy, what kind of a person you are

2. The value of "just showing up", every day

3. How important personal relationships/networking are, and just how SMALL the world is for how vast its size

Knowledge and skills are things you can sort of just pick up as you go along, but being given any kind of opportunity in the first place is not quite so easy.