hmmmm....Strange.. The people polled are the exact people who can make the difference in their orgs. Direct hire more IT people instead of trying to get them on the cheap by keeping them as consultants for years. Just so the business won't take the hit in benfits and taxes like benefits. You can't cry on one end and then take no action on the other. Which is it?
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This is a laugh
The same people CEO's, CIO's and others have been getting big bonuses for reducing staff and making what’s left of work force do all the extra work.
Hey we can out source this and save the company now. But they never look at the big picture. What will happen in the next quarter or the next year?
Because of the bonuses they will get.
So now they are trying to find out why they don’t have the staff they need?
And why they can’t get better IT people, the best went to smaller better paying companies or just went to another field.
You get what you pay for; if you sell out your trained staff you get puppets that only do what you say. Or you get staff that has grown up to do what the upper class tells them.
And that never works for a major corporation.
You get what you buy and if you buy cheap you get it.
But hey you got your bonuses right? So what if your boss can not get in to the VPN today right?
Yes, it is a laugh
Skilled? They mean people who have a skill to say yes instead using the learned skills. Unfortunately for companies current generations have grown with computers know that it doesn't work, never did, never will.
The current situation has really been created by these companies. When was last time they sent you to a seminar or at least to an users group meeting? Think about it. The CxO's whose own job doesn't really change still believe that IT is something you go to school to learn, same as they did 10-20-30 years ago?
IT has been and is one of the fastest changing field and "public" education alone can never deliver and can never keep up to date enough people who are both educated and have the experience in current IT and technology.
There used to be a time when IT people were treated same as any skilled workers in company, i.e. internal and external education and even training was available, actually required.
Now, who wants to use years to learn a lot of skills and have a position comparable (barely) to a minimum wage desk cleaner? Clean that desk, keep quiet and it is your fault if the day old coffee spill left marks to the table.
Worldwide shortage of IT workers
When will C-Level managment and their underlings realize that their huge shopping lists of skills and meager salaries don't mix. Employers ask for skills in everything from Telecom to desktop support to programming and everything in between. Anyone possessing all those skills would command considerably more salary than what is being offered by most employers. To make a long story short, in our industry you always get what you pay for.
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