It's not a conspiracy, as though you would elude to, or others would endorse. Finding a job within your career field is certainly enhanced by certified education and training, but the benefits of such aren't redeemed until after you have secured the position. Experience and confidence in your abilities, as well as, the ability to project that confidence is tantamount to securing the position you desire. What breeds the frustration and leads to rejection is the age old dilemna of how to gain experience when no one will hire you so you can acquire it. Once inside, your education and training will help propel you further. In the interim, you need to work on getting inside.
Some helpful tips: Get your foot in the door of a company that does whatever it is you want to do. Even if it is filling a position that is not what you eventually want to do! Once inside, move from within. It's a lot easier and the opportunities are more available to you to PROOVE to an employer you have certain capabilities, if you are working from the inside as opposed to filing countless resumes from the outside. Most employers fill from within and only post jobs outside after the vacancy cannot be filled. That is why many employers use temporary agencies - to screen potential employees. Once their abilities have been PROVEN, then they are hired as permanent employees.
Subscribe to journals that are specific to your industry. Often centers of higher education, although they profess to be teaching cutting edge technology, are teaching with yesterday's information and more often than not, with yesterday's donated equipment. By subscribing to the latest journals, you will develop foresight into what is needed now, enhance your vocabulary of industry related terms, and maintain the knowledge that you acquired in school. However, more importantly, you will learn where your industry or business is heading in the future. You might even find yourself offering your new employer ins... (truncated)

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