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Tech Sector Slow To Hire
Iftekhar25 writes "The NY Times is running an article about soaring unemployment rates for IT in the US (6 percent) despite a tech sector that is thirsting for engineering talent. Quoting: 'The chief hurdles to more robust technology hiring appear to be increasing automation and the addition of highly skilled labor overseas. The result is a mismatch of skill levels here at home: not enough workers with the cutting-edge skills coveted by tech firms, and too many people with abilities that can be duplicated offshore at lower cost. That's a familiar situation to many out-of-work software engineers, whose skills start depreciating almost as soon as they are laid off, given the dynamism of the industry.'"
They're digitalous?
On top of that, companies are not interested on hiring IT or engineering guys, they are interested on hiring CEOs! It would be a shame all those bonuses go to waste!
As a Sysadmin I totally agree. Any Net/Sys admin that works for any of the big contract companies is probably brain damaged. We had one replace a piece of fiber on their end, that terminated a 24x7 needed private link. He refused to tell anyone until everyone including all telcos involved pointed the finger at him. He did this to test this suspected bad piece of fiber. There were 4 hours of 20 or so folks time wasted because he was testing a cable that could not be worth more than $30.