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Story: Immigration can cure skills shortage, says SAS chief

Posted by: BillGatesTheThird (Wednesday 5 July 2006, 3:06 PM)

Thats not the only problem. If you decided to take a career break, go off to study or made redundant employers just look at you in a negative light.

The attitude from employers seems to be you havent programmed recently so bye bye. Ok tech moves quickly but to be they dont place any value to other qualities like experience, interpersonal skills, business knowledge also a lot of valueable knowledge can be transfered from one language to another etc.

This problem is especially epidemic in the contracting market. Add to this poor salaries and longs hours of unpaid overtime that is often required. (Would your lawyer or accountant even company CEO.work for free ? Dont think so)

The main problem is there are plenty of highly skilled professionals in this country but they are bot been considered or simply not considered by ignorant and short sighted employers. These people can learn new technologies (just like newbies) but also can bring valuable business skills and experience.
Things that employers are often complaining are lacked in newbies.

Using cheap overseas labour will help in the short term but its just going to make problems for the long term. Plus it'll help make IT less attractive to people looking for a rewarding and challenging career.

(Its going to be end like engineering where in the boom years employers found they didnt have enough attracted to the industry together with large numbers been made redundant/retired also universities closing down engineering depts etc.)

If there really is a skills shortage, then its the dim witted employers own making !