RE: Midrange Jobs National Discussion

["Timothy A. Grove" <tagrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
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> " 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
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> www.Partner400.com
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