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The job market, no matter what your field is, sucks right now. I have a lot of friends who have graduated and struggled to find jobs in their area of study, if they've found anything at all. The only people I know of who have had any luck at all have been engineers, and our school helps them find jobs through networking opportunities, because as Jazz said, if an engineer from OSU can't find a job, that says something about the school.
I went back to school because I graduated in 2008 and couldn't find a damn thing, even just general retail bottom of the rung employment. I had a patchwork of jobs that wouldn't even qualify as part-time--cleaning offices, working in childcare, nannying, etc. Tired of that scramble, I threw in the towel on most of my jobs and went back to school.
My advice? Consider returning to school. This time, lay the proper groundwork BEFORE graduating. A friend of mine works as a probation officer with just a Bachelor's degree. How? Because she busted her ass on internships and made connections through them that enabled her to find out about and get a job in rural Oregon. She worked hard to make sure she had done the legwork she needed to find employment before she got out of school. Keep in mind that your institution has a career center with workshops and whatnot that are meant to help you, even if you are graduated. Use their resources.
The fact of the matter is that right now you have to be PERFECT to land so much as an interview. Competition is fierce. Make sure your application materials are flawless before you send them in, and I really mean flawless. There are so many candidates right now, even for BS positions (I had 50+ applicants for a 6 hours a week childcare job recently), that a misspelled word or a misplaced punctuation mark can and will cost you your dream job.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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