I doubt an Art Major would apply for an engineering job, nor would a chemistry major. I doubt employment ads go out using STEM as a requirement for the major. I'd guess they are more specific than that, I need a BS in chemistry for this job.
Maybe I'm wrong. That's fine. They could make it STEAM or whatever and I'm not going to look at a resume from an Art major who claims it's a STEAM degree.
I would get some weird resumes when we advertised for jobs at times. Usually recruiting would ferret them out for us.
You're missing the point, and I guess you'll continue to do so, but I'll try again.
STEM was a term used for specific programs in the elementary, middle, and high schools, to promote to children that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, are positive areas of study that can result in good careers. That was STEM's focus, that was its target, and its goal was to encourage more participation in those subjects at younger ages, with the ultimate result of generating more engineers and scientists and mathematicians in the workforce here in the USA. As bwar, badgerfan, and I, have pointed out, currently there is a shortage, and it's getting worse with every passing year.
So while there is nothing wrong with the Arts, in fact there is a lot that is very much right with them, they have absolutely nothing to do with the original intent of the STEM programs in elementary and secondary education, and indeed introducing the Arts into the STEM movement undermines its charter and dilutes its message.