You need to put yourself out there, literally. Just go out, talk to people at your college about the stores and businesses surrounding the area, then go talk to them; build up a network of people who know your name and be relentless about it. You can't be shy and if you are (like I am...verily), suck it up and know that if you don't do it, you're going to be drowning in shit creek, again, like I was. After hearing people bullshit you about the economy and how difficult it is to get a job, you realize sooner or later that it isn't hard if you truly need a job. I don't mean 'want' or 'Yeah I need to get a job'. I mean, you're going to be fucking homeless, sucking dick for a bottle of water and a piece of bread and YOU FUCKING HAVE TO HAVE THIS FUCKING JOB FUUUUUUUUUUUCK ARI GOLLLLLLLLLD.
I'm sure none of this helped, but maybe it did. I don't know. I don't care. I just know that once my father cut me off and I realized how spoiled I was ('silver spoon' is a bit too much, I wasn't rich by any means and I grew up dirt poor, but throughout my teenage years I've definitely been upper-middle-class) and how little I had of myself; spending about a week in an apartment that was the size of my room in my old house and having to smell shit and deal with druggies and threats of robbery and yadda yadda 'Merica problems...I stopped being shy real fuckin' quick. That said, you alos learn the ropes of who to suck up to, who not to take shit from, who to go to when you really need to get a job, all the 'who's' of the world is all that matters when you first get started. It is extremely helpful and sometimes necessary.
As another said, do not be afraid of working grunt jobs and being that lowly peon. As long as you strive for the top and work hard, you'll get noticed; and those degrees at that point will start to help out and you'll be noticed even more. But working your way up the ladder is the best way to go, I believe. Every degree in this world won't give a future employer the same impression as seeing how much hard work you put into building yourself up and getting yourself out there. You've just got to do it in a way that suits you best. College is a great start but even then, if you aren't resolute about it, if you don't stay on top of it then you may as well start over.
This was more of a yadda yadda for myself I guess but if you take anything from my insanity, here have a lemon.