Why Employers are idiots: an observation

[Mr Khan]

mrstickball said:

Mr Khan said:

mrstickball said:
...Ask yourself why they are requiring such stringent standards.

Once you do that, get back to us before calling them "Asshats". Better yet, ask a few companies why they don't have lower standards for employment, since (according to you), its obviously their problem for causing unemployment to be so high.

Because they have no idea what people are actually qualified to do. There's a job in Pittsburgh asking for a Mandarin-fluent secretary for something like 35k a year. ludicrous.

employers just come up with whatever, slap it up on a job board, then engage in the biggest circle-jerk in human history.

And if there's no one willing to work for that kind of pay, what do you think happens to that position?

What happens if no one is qualified for a job, period, and they get no applicants?

The position is lumped on one of the overworked underlings at the firm? That seems to be what happens with downsizing, so i imagine that would be what happens to failed upsizing.

Perhaps my rage has gotten the better of me in making this thread, but I do still feel, looking at the job market, that we're in the middle of some great reset. New graduates are forced out by experienced people who had been unemployed in the recent downturn, companies are headhunting for experienced people that they can force into lower-paying entry level positions as the field of people who simply can't enter the industry grows. Something has to give.