SPOKANE--Soaring unemployment has left many people in Spokane desperate for anything that will help pay the bills. Highly skilled, educated people are applying for jobs for which they are over-qualified.

krem.com

Jackie Nelson, a manager at Dicks Hamburgers says she received dozens of applications just this week from people who have college educations and experience, but she can't do anything to help them. Dicks, like most of the businesses we talked to, is fully staffed, even having to cut hours for current employees, and has large stacks of applications from people just waiting for a job.

The upside, says Nelson, is that the huge demand for jobs motivates her current employees to work hard because they know that there's a line of people waiting to take their positions if they don't keep up.