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Story: Gates: We're short of tech talent
Posted by: Mark Sobkow (Tuesday 19 July 2005, 6:59 PM)
The industry isn't short on talent. If anything, there is an overabundance of talent in the US and Canada. The problem is that employers want to pay local talent as little as they pay offshore firms, and it's just not enough to live on in the cities the employers are located in.
Making the problem even worse are the resume filtering procedures and programs that many employers and agencies use. I know of many people (myself included) who have many years of transactional processing systems experience, but reviewers don't seem to realize that experience applies to a solid J2EE design as well, so they don't even think to interview such people.
After twenty years in the industry, I found myself without one single interview during two years of job hunting. With thousands of stories like that being posted regularly to various websites, why would anyone in their right mind want to spend thousands of dollars getting a CS degree to enter the industry?
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