Overqualified academics forced to emigrate

According to surveys by the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Statistical Institute, 80 percent of Bulgarian employers have at best a secondary school diploma, whereas around 70 percent of academics can't find a position suited to their qualifications. The daily Duma is concerned about Bulgaria's future: "On the one hand employers feel menaced by self-confident employees with superior education who know their rights as workers. On the other hand the requirements demanded of qualified staff are completely excessive: they should speak two to three languages, have three to five years of work experience and not be older than 25. On top of all that they should have modest expectations as far as salary goes. As a result, highly qualified job seekers have two options: accepting a job below their status or emigrating. ... If the government doesn't take steps to counter this trend we'll soon be a banana republic through and through."

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