Looking at my own team, our best performers came from non-traditional backgrounds but brought specialized skills and proven track records. One guy never finished high school but built three successful DeFi protocols from scratch. Another has multiple degrees but couldn't adapt to changing market conditions. True life story.
School is not a guarantee of becoming successful so I don't know why people always expect those with certificate to be always good with other things or even in their places of work the fact is that it's not every thing that you learn in school so there are things that you develop inside of you on personal basis so the basis of success should not be base on school
Skills have their role to play in life so school is not just enough try and get a skill even though you are a graduate because doing that is putting yourself in front and positioning yourself for opportunities that may come in the future because the fact is that there are no jobs even for the graduates to work
It was never been a guarantee and come to think that there are tons of those who graduated ended up on having no job or simply jobless after wards because it cant be catered out on providing jobs on each one of them. Come to think that in every year there's that number of those who graduated and the number keeps on piling up. Whenever you do finish up your studies then the primary target or things that you do is trying out to find or land a job and this is where you do make or sent out those applications on different companies. On the moment that these employers choosing up then fresh graduates do have that lesser chance on getting accepted in compared into those who had some past experiences on a certain job description on which it do really sucks and thats a total disadvantage.
There are employers that do accepts fresh graduates but still it wont be that easy to get in or get chosen because of high competition and thats why you should be that trying your best when it comes to the interview or evaluation because this is where it do depends whether you do get chosen or not. The primary target you do have is to land a job and even if you do have that zero knowledge but on the moment that you do able to get a job position then you do eventually learn afterwards. There are just that those employers who do prioritized to those who do have experience for the said job position or vacancy.