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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.
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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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"].
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.
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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When I got started after the dot com bust, I got my A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows 2000 certification. That set me up for IT Support contracts that start at $10 per hour (minimum wage) in Silicon Valley.
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!
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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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...
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