It has a lot to do with what people study at school. My firm does industrial robotic integration and we hire mechanical, electrical, and welding engineering technologists from various colleges. We're very busy and we've been recruiting co-op students and new graduates with full-time job offers, and some of these kids are mulling over 3 or 4 other great offers in addition to ours.

The college faculty complain that their biggest problem in terms of meeting the market demand is recruiting good qualified high-school graduates to enter these sorts of programs. Of course everyone has been sold on the idea that you must go to university instead.