Where are all the innovators?

When reading a recent article on Reuters about the bleak employment outlook for the class of 2013 (Weak labor outlook awaits Class of 2013 http://reut.rs/10NAeMa), I found myself wondering, "where are the next great innovators?" 

There are a number of doors for our graduates to walk through, its their innovation that will allow them to open and walk through those doors. 

Our weak economy could in part be due to this lack of innovation from the millennials, who upon graduation attempt to either fit themselves into a narrow box or accept low skill, low wage jobs. 

Where are the graduates who spend these post graduation days taking a skills inventory, researching jobs that fit in with their skill set, then marketing themselves to employers who could benefit from these skills?

What our nation needs right now is for our graduates to stop grumbling about lack of available jobs and mounting student loan debt, and identify the way the skills they learned in college can be put to use to land a solid job with growth potential.

This is innovation in its most basic sense - carving something out of nothing through hard work and determination. 

But perhaps this begs the larger question: is this generation of college graduates leaving school unprepared to look for opportunity in places where it may not be abundantly clear?