I'm sure that this has been said many times, but I feel that the biggest problem facing
the IT industry as a whole is that the job market if flooded with incompetent people.
I say this based on two reasons. First, because computer training companies are setting up
offices like fried chicken restaurants in the cities. Every other corner/advertisment
on the tv or radio has something about "like computers, and are unhappy with your janitorial
job??? then come to us and we'll train you to be a systems administrator starting at $$$$"
Sound familiar? Cause i hear it about once every 5 minutes on the radio. To provide
validatie to my point, I recently worked with a fellow who was in his early 40's, and
out of the blue switchd his career as a truck driver over to network administration.
He poured a boat load of money into one of these computer training places, and gets
himself a helpdesk job at my company. Now i was tasked with the job of training him at our
company. Long story short, after 6 months, he still didn't know jack shit about computers,
but was originally hired (after telling my manager not to) because he has a list of cert's
a mile long and because he said "computers intrigued him". I feel that this is quite
commonly the case elsewhere, the IT job market is flooded with these boozo's that somehow
get these jobs and can't tell their $#@ from a hole in the ground, which in turn gives IT
workers a horred name.
Now my second reason, is due to the graduates coming out of schools with a degree in IT.
I currently will be one of the graduates, and i must say that out of graduating class,
I would only feel comfortable working next to about 3 fellow graduates, the rest are
wastes of space that somehow managed to graduate because of their essay, test taking, and
reguratation skills. These kids are a joke, they majored in IT because the liked computers
but don't really have a clue about them. I am floored everyday by the questions I am asked
by my fellow classmates, the questions are ones that shouldn't even be asked by someone at
their leave, yet they have absolutely no clue. I feel that this is common around our
country. I could go on for hours about this, but I won't. Hopefully this ramble made some
sense cause it was written quite hastly.
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I'm sure that this has been said many times, but I feel that the biggest problem facing the IT industry as a whole is that the job market if flooded with incompetent people. I say this based on two reasons. First, because computer training companies are setting up offices like fried chicken restaurants in the cities. Every other corner/advertisment on the tv or radio has something about "like computers, and are unhappy with your janitorial job??? then come to us and we'll train you to be a systems administrator starting at $$$$" Sound familiar? Cause i hear it about once every 5 minutes on the radio. To provide validatie to my point, I recently worked with a fellow who was in his early 40's, and out of the blue switchd his career as a truck driver over to network administration. He poured a boat load of money into one of these computer training places, and gets himself a helpdesk job at my company. Now i was tasked with the job of training him at our company. Long story short, after 6 months, he still didn't know jack shit about computers, but was originally hired (after telling my manager not to) because he has a list of cert's a mile long and because he said "computers intrigued him". I feel that this is quite commonly the case elsewhere, the IT job market is flooded with these boozo's that somehow get these jobs and can't tell their $#@ from a hole in the ground, which in turn gives IT workers a horred name. Now my second reason, is due to the graduates coming out of schools with a degree in IT. I currently will be one of the graduates, and i must say that out of graduating class, I would only feel comfortable working next to about 3 fellow graduates, the rest are wastes of space that somehow managed to graduate because of their essay, test taking, and reguratation skills. These kids are a joke, they majored in IT because the liked computers but don't really have a clue about them. I am floored everyday by the questions I am asked by my fellow classmates, the questions are ones that shouldn't even be asked by someone at their leave, yet they have absolutely no clue. I feel that this is common around our country. I could go on for hours about this, but I won't. Hopefully this ramble made some sense cause it was written quite hastly.