Why Employers are idiots: an observation

[Slimebeast]

Mr Khan said:

Slimebeast 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.

Is that much or little? I think it sounds fairly much (the same as a secretary is paid in Sweden, but our living costs are higher). A secretary is like an office lady, correct?

That's a solid starting salary for professionals (what i'm targeting, actually), but it is rather low and would be a poor prospect for someone with Mandarin fluency, being the qualifier here. Employers are trying to take the highly qualified and just jam them into whatever low-paying corner they can, and leave anyone other than the highly-qualified out on the street to rot, not calculating that a shrunken middle class will annihilate them in the long run.

Okay, Mandarin is key here.

But, by "professionals", do you mean professionals in the field of secretary? And a secretary in the US basically means the same as secretary means here (doing basic office work such as answering phone calls, checking the mail, arranging schedules for other workers etc)?