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This is one very true statement: You don't mention that you are looking for "cheap" staff - which is often one of the problems - so why are all the qualified people not rushing after your vacancies?When out of work I was "Overqualified" for some positions that I looked at. Translation: You have worked too many years to want to put up with the pitiful salary that we are offering for this job/contract.
Overseas outsourcing for an extremely low wage here (but comparatively extravagant wage for India, for example) is making the realities this:
Company says: I advertised, but there were no American workers that I could hire, so I get to outsource it to India.
Reality of situation: Programmer will not take $20/hour to work when they are contract employee and have to furnish their own travel and insurance. Or, company offers the position to those with "2-5 years experience for permanent placement", knowinf full well that there ARE no AS400 people wil that range of skills.
I'm trying to get a data backup business going, so that I'm not tied to programming fully. AND I'm trying to learn .NET, so that I can get full or part-time work doing that when the bottom falls out from under the AS400.
At 02:43 PM 1/30/2007, you wrote:
*** Please pay close attention when replying to a message on this list! *** If you want the reply to go to the list, use REPLY-TO-ALL *** Recruiters may advertise only permanent employment positions in this list. " Our experience within the last few years is that it is hard to find seasoned ISeries people who can handle large systems and large scale projects. When we go looking, the prospects are slim." This to me is one of the great mysteries. As has been apparent in these threads, there are many System i folks out there who seem to be looking for work. At the same time I constantly hear from customers that one of the reasons they are considering moving off the box is a lack of qualified staff. You don't mention that you are looking for "cheap" staff - which is often one of the problems - so why are all the qualified people not rushing after your vacancies? Have you considered training folks with experience in other languages? Or perhaps even training people with aptitude and experience in your industry to program? As I noted in an earlier post - the staff shortage is one that System i is simply seeing before other platforms because as a community we are small compared with Java etc. But I am convinced that outsourcing will be a necessity before long because there simply aren't new kids entering the field. Comp-sci is passé - the kids aren't interested. Jon Paris Partner400 www.Partner400.com -- This is the Midrange Jobs: Postings & Discussion (MIDRANGE-JOBS) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-JOBS@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-jobs or email: MIDRANGE-JOBS-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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