I don’t get it. I’m a CS graduate and I can’t get a job. Apparently these vocational qualifications trump my useless education. The recruiters are even fitting little macros to filter out the people who don’t have say, MCSE or any other of this ‘kinda stuff’. A recruiter from London – working for one of these ‘dodgy Microsoft courses’ even had the balls to phone me up and tell me that I did’nt know computing because I had no MCSE. Few points here with regards to this. If you need to go on a 3 year course to work Windows then by the Gods you’re a bit daft. IN those 3 years you should know how to administrate, disassemble and fix stuff using a multitude of skills. If you did’nt get to go to Univeristy to study CS because of your grades or lack of them then let that tell you something. I’ll admit that there are people who come through the edu system and can’t even switch a computer on. They usually become IT recruiters though, eventually, when they become sufficiently embarrassed that is. Computing is a science. How many Chemists do you know without a degree? How many Physicists did’nt study at uni? I know, lets hire the tv repair guy to design our brand new s-o-a tv set and forget about the electronics engineers because they went to uni. Just another point – an important one. Are we really doomed to a future of MS, Oracle, IBM etc dictating how we should be educated in computing because it’s starting to look that way. The arseholes are making a bucket load of money out of too I bet.
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I don’t get it. I’m a CS graduate and I can’t get a job. Apparently these vocational qualifications trump my useless education. The recruiters are even fitting little macros to filter out the people who don’t have say, MCSE or any other of this ‘kinda stuff’. A recruiter from London – working for one of these ‘dodgy Microsoft courses’ even had the balls to phone me up and tell me that I did’nt know computing because I had no MCSE. Few points here with regards to this. If you need to go on a 3 year course to work Windows then by the Gods you’re a bit daft. IN those 3 years you should know how to administrate, disassemble and fix stuff using a multitude of skills. If you did’nt get to go to Univeristy to study CS because of your grades or lack of them then let that tell you something. I’ll admit that there are people who come through the edu system and can’t even switch a computer on. They usually become IT recruiters though, eventually, when they become sufficiently embarrassed that is. Computing is a science. How many Chemists do you know without a degree? How many Physicists did’nt study at uni? I know, lets hire the tv repair guy to design our brand new s-o-a tv set and forget about the electronics engineers because they went to uni. Just another point – an important one. Are we really doomed to a future of MS, Oracle, IBM etc dictating how we should be educated in computing because it’s starting to look that way. The arseholes are making a bucket load of money out of too I bet.