Dear people,
Sometimes when you are rejected because you don't have "blah" experience,
it's not really because of exactly that.
Perhaps they just didn't like you.
Or they were after someone cheaper.
Or where not prepared to train anyone for their exacting requirements.
There have been a few articles in the papers and on the Web about the
so-called "skills crisis", and so far it seems that the biggest complaints
about not being able to find skilled staff are coming from startup companies
who cannot afford to
a) train generalist skilled people to their expectations
b) pay for another company to do the specialist work for them
Often they will underpay and issue stock instead of higher wages.
A junior person with skills that happen to match may be snaffled up,
provided the company thinks they will actually do what's asked of them.
Also, some agencies are totally clueless about matching skill sets to
potential customers.
Suppose you were an employer looking for "Linux Expert" and asked an agency
for one with a few year's commercial programming experience.
The agencies are often unable to relate the skillsets required to be a
"Linux Expert" or a person with any programming experience (in any language,
any OS).
The moral of the story is:
If you are looking for work, be prepared for lots of rejections.
If you are looking for employees, look beyond the simplistic skills "boxed
set" and be prepared to train the newbie.
Regards,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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