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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.'"
First !!
IT is not engineering. The two fields are not analogous
Bravo! I'm so sick of liberal arts majors, fellow CS majors and much more who don't have an actual engineering degree [M.E. here] and always bitching that they aren't recognized as Engineers. A fellow colleague at NeXT conveyed how he never got the respect of his father about the title Senior Software Engineer--his father called him a Senior Software Programmer. I couldn't help placate his ego. I agreed with his father who held and EE masters from MIT. I basically told him to either accept that his biology degree doesn't transfer no matter how many years he's employed with the title Software Engineer or he could actually study and get a degree in engineering. Bill Joy was famously cited for saying he hopes one day that CS eventually can be like Mechanical Engineering. He's right.