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    BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

    Is this the good news for an IT contracting industry that has seen a decline in rates for the past 13 years or is it bob a job time?

    The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition" to address the region's IT skills shortages.

    In other words they are not just wasting some money they arer wasting "grand amounts" of it
    Last edited by DodgyAgent; 5 March 2013, 14:23.
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

    #2
    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

    Is this the good news for an IT contracting industry that has seen a decline in rates for the past 13 years or is it bob a job time?
    1 million euros is going to go how far?
    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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      #3
      Originally posted by eek View Post
      1 million euros is going to go how far?
      It will be needed to provide lining for the the pockets of Eurocrats tasked with administering it
      Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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        #4
        Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
        It will line the pockets of some eurocrats
        ...and their agents.
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Why is it that the government seem to think there is an 'IT Skills Shortage' where as on here we seem to think the opposite?

          Is it because what they actually mean is there is an "IT skills shortage of people willing to work for £20k PA and as all my CEO chums do not want to pay £40k pa to their staff as they think IT is 'easy' and nothing more than 'admin work'"

          bit confused and just askin!

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            #6
            Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
            ...and their agents.
            Naturelement
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              #7
              "Quite simply, facing hundreds of thousands of unfilled vacancies, we cannot continue as we were; and we must all do our bit."

              They can start by sacking all the internal recruitment people who spend their entire time sitting behind voicemail and convincing the management that the skills "are not there"
              Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                #8
                Originally posted by original PM View Post

                Is it because what they actually mean is there is an "IT skills shortage of people willing to work for £20k PA and as all my CEO chums do not want to pay £40k pa to their staff as they think IT is 'easy' and nothing more than 'admin work'"
                Um yes but just £40k
                merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                  #9
                  They have the same skills shortage in the US too, noted by Paul Krugman:

                  Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can’t find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they’re offering. Almost always, it turns out that what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
                  Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.

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                    #10
                    that was my thoughts - thanks for clarifying...

                    so in essence the skills shortage is just manufactured to allow greedy CEO's to legitametly recruit off shore workers at a cheaper rate

                    and we wonder why the country has gone to the dogs...

                    human greed has a lot to answer for

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