Facing the well-documented employment struggles facing recent college graduates, two newly minted University of South Florida alums literally took to the streets to find work.

According to USA Today, Damian Romero and Jarod Fluck developed a creative job hunting method to combat a particularly tough market for 20- and 30-somethings. The pair of USF grads have taken to standing on the side of the street holding cardboard signs and copies of their resume.

"I figured it'd be a great way to separate us from the rest," Romero told USA Today. "We've tried a couple of job expos and tried getting in touch with employers."

Their signs say they are not (yet) homeless and they dress up in suits while passing out resumes to anyone who wants one. The idea is that a potential employer would happen to see them and be intrigued by the creativity in their approach.

"It's all about networking, really," Fluck told the newspaper. "Finding those hidden jobs is what we're trying to do out here.

"As anyone looking for a job knows, it's tough out there."

Romero is seeking a job in finance and Fluck in marketing.

At the peak of the recession in 2009, the unemployment rate for college graduates aged 22 to 27 was 6.4 percent, though that figure has dropped to 5.6 percent last year, Bloomberg News reported. On the whole, unemployment in the U.S. dropped to 6.3 percent, the lowest it has been since 2008.

The problem is not only that recent college grads are having trouble getting jobs; young people are increasingly not working in the field of their degree. A study published in Jan. 2013 from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity found nearly half of college graduates work jobs deemed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to not require a four-year degree.

Recent graduates can sometimes feel the need to stay at their job, even if it is not in the field in which they earned their degree, in order to pay off their student loans.

"While graduates today are more likely to get jobs, they're unlikely to get a job that they are qualified for or in their area of expertise," Kevin Scott, an employer consultant in Atlanta with the Addo Institute, told Bloomberg News. "Because it's such a buyer's market for employers, they get graduates who will work for less money and for more hours."