There is a lot of talk about skills shortages in IT yet employers stubbornly refuse to deal with agency/new agency suppliers? is there really such a shortage of skills?
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Skills shortages in 2016
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThere is a lot of talk about skills shortages in IT yet employers stubbornly refuse to deal with dodgy agents? -
Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThere is a lot of talk about skills shortages in IT yet employers stubbornly refuse to deal with agency/new agency suppliers? is there really such a shortage of skills?Comment
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Yes key skills we are short of!
1. working for peanuts
2. being unable to solve their extremely poorly documented problems without budget.
3. Wishing to gloss over poor management decisions, keep the lights on and manage to spend less every year.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostYes key skills we are short of!
1. working for peanuts
2. being unable to solve their extremely poorly documented problems without budget.
3. Wishing to gloss over poor management decisions, keep the lights on and manage to spend less every year.
That particular one guarantees the job spec. hits the delete bin for me.nomadd liked this postComment
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Originally posted by nomadd View Post4. Must have experience of managing offshore teams.
That particular one guarantees the job spec. hits the delete bin for me.Comment
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Originally posted by nomadd View Post4. Must have experience of managing offshore teams.
That particular one guarantees the job spec. hits the delete bin for me.
I ask where the team is before deciding whether to decline though some tell you for that reason."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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just making sure that CUK is working in normally. i.e serious threads are dealt with by sarcasm, cynicism and insults to recruitment agentsLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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From a telco perspective.
Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThere is a lot of talk about skills shortages in IT yet employers stubbornly refuse to deal with agency/new agency suppliers? is there really such a shortage of skills?
All the regular ops & DC stuff is saturated with NSN & Ericsonn lay-offs. Market swamped with them.Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostWhat do you have against Turks, the Vietnamese and South Africans?
What do you have against the 7 billion people from other Nations?nomadd liked this postComment
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