Hi all, This is a recurring subject that some of us on london.pm and use.perl have been covering - Perl employers in the UK and especially London seem to have followed the trend of not investing in the skills they need, leading to a glut of 'senior perl' roles and them complain about it being hard to recruit decent Perl people.
Of course this is a general thing accross the industry - employers have always complained that they don't have a glut of highly skilled young fresh graduates with years of commercial experience in the newest technologies, and that something needs to be done (by somebody else). I think we all know that the IT industry is notorious for not thinking long term, and especially wanting something for nothing when it comes to recruiting the people they need - rather than train a junior, go to universities and select bright graduates, or take on undergraduate placements, most expect people to pay their way through uni, share a grotty house with half a dozen other equally broke graduates while they work for a less than you'd get as a supervisor in starbucks in a rare junior role, while teaching themselves what they need to know for a few years before they're considered worthy of a job. Anyway... after some repeated discussion and coming to the conclusion that employers won't be contributing to the skills pool any time soon.. a couple of us started bouncing around more constructive ideas and JFDI : http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20070212/006512.html Cheers, A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
