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IT Leaders Will Struggle To Meet Future Demands, Study Says (betanews.com)
When it comes to meeting future demands, IT leaders in the UK are lagging behind those in Germany and the US. From a report: This is according to a new report by Brocade, entitled Global Digital Transformation Skills Study. The report is based on a survey of 630 IT leaders in the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia and Singapore. It says that organizations are "at a tipping point" -- a point in time when technology demands are just about to outstrip the skills supply. Consequently, those that train their staff now and prepare for the future in that respect are the ones that are setting themselves up for a successful future. Almost three quarters (74 percent) of IT leaders in the UK see IT departments as either "very important" or "critical" to both innovation and the growth of their business. But the same woes reman, as almost two thirds (63 percent) think they'll struggle to find the right people in the next year.
i'm gonna get paid!!!!!!
You outsource the jobs, then complain you can't find qualified workers? Bullshit.
You're not paying them enough.
two thirds (63 percent) think they'll struggle to find the right people in the next year.
Translation: Idiots who will work tons of extra hours for peanuts.
THE SOFTWARE, IT NO WORKY!!!
Import India. Don't train up the natives in the UK, why would you do that? California is so great now that it's Indian, so let's do it in the UK too!
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So does that mean I'll finally be able to get a bloody work visa soon? Not that I'm sure I'd even want one after Brexit... I certainly wouldn't blame IT people for abandoning that sinking ship!
They have the word "demand" in the article so they are half way there - now let them figure out the "supply" part of the equation. Pay more and there will be no problem with the supply of skilled people [skilled as in properly trained, motivated, primarily local workforce, not as in "outsourced to India"].
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>can't figure out why workers are consistently underqualified
Where demand for skills doesn't outstrip supply? Also, why do I make such crap wages with so little training opportunities that aren't paid for out of my pocket if supply is such an issue. It's almost as if somebody with a vested interest in having a bigger labor pool is pushing some kind of narrative. But they wouldn't do that, would they?
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I read a study after the dot com bust that the IT industry will have a shortage of skilled workers as baby boomers retire and foreign workers go home by 2030. That's when I decided to go back to school to learn computer programming and got into IT support. I'm looking forward to making money in the next 30 years.
It's hard to find people willing to work for 60+ hours a week for 60K in the bay area.
4 year college degree, and 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 14 months and cannot be taught in a classroom outside of business anyways. The requirements are way past ridiculous and border on the insane. To top it all off the person doing the hiring hasn't a clue about the actual technical requirements needed to perform the job. They want their cake and want it for free, they want to tell you what to do, how to do it and pay you next to nothing all the while not having a clue what they REALLY want, how to do it, or the resources needed to do it with. Just another day in the life of an IT professional...
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For me I suppose it's okay because I'm old school and have proven I can continually expand my skill sets. For whatever reason, many people in IT seem to stop learning after their certification/university degree courses. Not all of course, but many I've encountered. Perhaps this is in part because of false starts. The people who started (and in many, many cases ended) their careers with MS Visual Basic and database template gui's like crystal reports. In my opinion, any IT person who doesn't know how to get around Linux/BSD/Unix (including MacOS ) is just waiting to get axed and those are most often the people I encounter having trouble keeping work. I guess my recommendation is similar to a stock market portfolio: diversify, diversify, diversify. right now, the big markets (pardon the pun), seem to be Big Data (marketing analysis primarily), AI, Robotics, and OO Programming (Java is there but may be on decline in a few years in favor of Python or improved JavaScript and possibly C/C++). Ruby is also on the rise. anything that makes coding more readable is definitely a big one to be part of these days. We need to train others in how to watch trends and update accordingly. that was one thing an old mentor gave to me that was invaluable. He predicted Java's rise before Java was cool.
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Pay and treat people very well in the profession now, and in 5 years or so you will see more people coming into the profession. That's usually the sane way to do it.
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What's the most time efficient pathway into work for someone not interested in programming? Something that actually works even if it's a crap job.
A testing qualification of some sort?
Cisco style sysadmin style small modules that will get you *something*.
Or just a MCSE?
^ and combine all this with the usual self study.
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The pay scales for software engineers (and probably IT people too) are about half what they are in the USA.
And there's a shortage? Oh my! I wonder why?
So Technology and engineering in the UK is in danger of being substandard compared to Germany?
Say it ain't so!
Next thing you know Mercedes will be more reliable than Jaguar!
The used a term that is foreign to me. "Companies that train"? Companies don't train people in the USA. Companies use up people and burn them out, then replace them with foreign labor.
I'm in the UK, semi-retired but still do some freelance, some (free and paid) support for voluntary organisations. I've been 'industry' for 40 years this year.
The first thing I see is a mad/incompetent buzzword list based recruitment process from agencies that don't understand anything about technology. I'm asked to do stuff, then eliminated because one easy-to-learn (I mean a couple of days, usually) thing is missing from the application. I don't lie either, I don't like it and don't need to. This leads to the next thing.
When I entered the industry, managers and companies expected to train and develop (permanent) staff, as part of the social contract. They understood that people don't know everything but half-way smart/motivated people can learn stuff too. Now this is treated as an economic externality in that they expect the (very expensive) universities and colleges to do everything for them. They appear to complain bitterly on television when they find that they may have to use some of their own resources.
Finally, on the same lines, they need to try and let non graduates and other fields in. There weren't any computer science degrees when I started, I studied chemistry and a lot of my co-workers studied Greek and Latin, for example. Ability to learn is (often) a horizontal thing, though I agree people have blind spots.
So this can probably be sorted out, but it requires a change of attitude in the career chain.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
Ramen, like noodles? Roman, like Julius Caesar?
Perhaps they're talking about unabandoning a ship?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The level of insight to come up with this isn't something you can learn. You're born with it. It's a gift.
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Anyone else wondering what this "brocade" outfit's trying to sell?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
DO NOT let them bully you into working NO MATTER how critical they make it seem. You and your wife deserve the honeymoon and you will NEVER EVER get the newly wed feeling back again. You can tell your self you'll take a honeymoon later and you may well do it but it won't be the same. That 'new car smell' forgive my crude analogy will wear off soon enough. Take her some place special and quiet, just the 2 of you and enjoy newly married life and each other...Thus speaks the voice of experience. A previously married guy, now divorced. My GF and I make sure to get away on a quarterly basis for a little bit of time, even if it is just a long weekend. I won't make the same mistakes twice...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?