Re: UKNM: Skills shortage? No. Investment shortage? yes

[Steve Mynott]

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:33:42AM -0800, Quentin Langley wrote:

> This has, for years been the big problem in the IT

> sector, and it is getting worse.  Qualifications and

> experience date so quickly that it is difficult for an

> employer to tell the difference between someone who is

> good and someone who is not.  Worse, budget holders

> sometimes know little about the subject, realising

> that "this Internet thingy" is important because their

> grandchildren told them so.


I don't think this is true at all.  Qualifications and experience

in the internet industry don't date *that* quickly.


I would say the problem is more technically ignorant employers and

HR people, asking for unlikely or impossible mixtures of skill sets

or being unable to judge whether a given techie is any good or not.


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