People who can write are a dime a dozen. Competent technical people are not. I have worked in Talent Aquisition for three fortune 500 companies and a few high tech start ups. I can tell you from experience that we have to fight tooth and nail to hire the best engineering students and pay them top dollar to attract them. Meanwhile, the art history or psychology or political science or english lit grads break down our door to take a 40k administrative assistant job.