You just need to adjust to the simple economic reality involved. Pay more get more, pay less get less. Keep the status quo on pay and you keep the status quo on applicants. Just because the package looks good to you, doesn't mean it looks good to the person you want to higher.
It's just like selling a house: It makes no difference what you would pay for it; all that matters is what the person who will buy it is willing to pay (otherwise you don't sell it). Although maybe in the near future the government will start buying you out of this economic reality as well.
We are offering market wage... Either CS degrees are seriously lacking in rigor since I participated ~ 8 years ago, or they are just rubber stamping people that shouldn't be passing the classes. Or Market wage isn't good enough for the worker you want to higher. There have always been people getting degrees that don't actually have the documented skills, but the better the pay in a field the more qualified, motivated, and worthy students will enter that field. Right now CS is not seen as a field for motivated students, the only way to fix this is for industry to offer more incentives.
I would say that your pay and benefits aren't sweet enough IMHO. Seriously why is your first response: "There aren't enough qualified.." rather than "We aren't offering enough compensation... " ?? Just because you would take the job for what you are offering doesn't mean your future applicant would; and how do you expect the situation to correct if you are unbending in your assessment of the compensation package? Ohh that's right, you'll get the government to bail your company out and import what are essentially scabs from somewhere else.
and let the job market correct itself?
We have these same issues in my field. If people were payed what they are worth we wouldn't have to import workers. I see these claims of shortages of workers in any field as simply industry's (quite successful) attempts to suppress wages for a long time to come, rather than be forced to pay the wage that the current supply-demand for that skill set dictates. Once society sees the adjusted pay grades, incoming students will adjust the supply accordingly.
You don't honestly think everyone is getting a business degree because they perceive that those are the jobs most in demand. No, everyone does business degrees because the work-pay ratio is seen as being much better in that field than others.
Imagine the responses of CEO's and CFO's if we showed that there was a shortage of skilled executives. Actually given the current state of affairs in some industries it seems there is certainly a shortage of skilled CEO's and CFO's. Now rather than pay the existing LARGE salaries and incentive packages, why don't we just import some Cheif Officers from outside the US.
The only program I miss on my linux machine is Illustrator. The sole reason I keep a Mac account at work is to have access to this program. Yes in principal it should be the same as some combination of Xfig and Gimp but in practice the figures I make with AI have a professional appearance that I just can't duplicate with those other two. I'm not insisting it be free, but I want a version of it for my linux machine and I would gladly pay above the Mac price.
For the last five years I have been doing the following when I fly: From the moment I step up to the TSA agent checking id's and boarding passes I look them in the eyes. I would say nine times out of ten they check my id against my boarding pass and initial the bp without ever looking up at me. I want them to do what I did when I ran a cash register at a liquor store, check the picture, check the face, check the picture again. I'm to scared that they'll ruin my day to ever point out to them that they never checked my face against the one on my id. About time some of them are at least being taught to look at our faces.
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You just need to adjust to the simple economic reality involved. Pay more get more, pay less get less. Keep the status quo on pay and you keep the status quo on applicants. Just because the package looks good to you, doesn't mean it looks good to the person you want to higher.
It's just like selling a house: It makes no difference what you would pay for it; all that matters is what the person who will buy it is willing to pay (otherwise you don't sell it). Although maybe in the near future the government will start buying you out of this economic reality as well.
I would say that your pay and benefits aren't sweet enough IMHO. Seriously why is your first response: "There aren't enough qualified.." rather than "We aren't offering enough compensation ... " ?? Just because you would take the job for what you are offering doesn't mean your future applicant would; and how do you expect the situation to correct if you are unbending in your assessment of the compensation package? Ohh that's right, you'll get the government to bail your company out and import what are essentially scabs from somewhere else.
and let the job market correct itself? We have these same issues in my field. If people were payed what they are worth we wouldn't have to import workers. I see these claims of shortages of workers in any field as simply industry's (quite successful) attempts to suppress wages for a long time to come, rather than be forced to pay the wage that the current supply-demand for that skill set dictates. Once society sees the adjusted pay grades, incoming students will adjust the supply accordingly. You don't honestly think everyone is getting a business degree because they perceive that those are the jobs most in demand. No, everyone does business degrees because the work-pay ratio is seen as being much better in that field than others. Imagine the responses of CEO's and CFO's if we showed that there was a shortage of skilled executives. Actually given the current state of affairs in some industries it seems there is certainly a shortage of skilled CEO's and CFO's. Now rather than pay the existing LARGE salaries and incentive packages, why don't we just import some Cheif Officers from outside the US.
The name seems awful close to the math program "Singular" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINGULAR
The only program I miss on my linux machine is Illustrator. The sole reason I keep a Mac account at work is to have access to this program. Yes in principal it should be the same as some combination of Xfig and Gimp but in practice the figures I make with AI have a professional appearance that I just can't duplicate with those other two. I'm not insisting it be free, but I want a version of it for my linux machine and I would gladly pay above the Mac price.
For the last five years I have been doing the following when I fly: From the moment I step up to the TSA agent checking id's and boarding passes I look them in the eyes. I would say nine times out of ten they check my id against my boarding pass and initial the bp without ever looking up at me. I want them to do what I did when I ran a cash register at a liquor store, check the picture, check the face, check the picture again. I'm to scared that they'll ruin my day to ever point out to them that they never checked my face against the one on my id. About time some of them are at least being taught to look at our faces.