Posted on 04/26/2020 7:11:07 PM PDT by jroehl
Back in the day people used to go through local employment agencies. While I was looking for my first big job I got a good odd job from one of them. At the time the fee was about half my first paycheck.
Actually, I have been a member of FR for over 20 years.
Retread, or lost your handle in a tragic boating accident? :-D
"Hello, this is *Peggy*"
These days, for a tech worker, the employer may pay the staffing firm 25 percent of the employee’s yearly salary as a placement fee.
Contracting? A firm that contacted me a month ago was trying to take 40 percent of the hourly rate to hand me a check, with no benefits.
If I can help my fellow IL / Chicago Area Freepers, I’m more than happy to do so. :-)
I’m sure cybersecurity jobs exist. Do 500,000 cybersecurity jobs exist? No.
Consider Dice.com for a moment. Dice used to display they had around 80,000 tech jobs open.
In reality, Dice counts every job posting as a job opening. For example, if Sprint in Overland Park posts a job opening on Dice & 10 staffing firms post the same opening at Sprint, that counts as 11 openings.
Another reason for claiming 500,000 job openings in cybersecurity is for employers to scream “see, there’s a talent shortage, we need more guest workers.”
You write a similar story for the so-called COBOL talent shortage.
BTW, if there’s a listing of job openings these desperate gooberment agencies looking to hire for cybersecurity or COBOL, I’d love to see it.
IT hiring is broken. Don’t believe the hype.
A good friend got his CISSP a while ago. He works for a major consulting firm you’ve all heard of. That firm has a cybersecurity practice.
In 7 years, nobody at the consulting firm has contacted him regarding his CISSP for a customer engagement.
His primary job: Baby-sitting Indians in Hyderabad from Seattle.
Started in IT with a BS in Computer Science (pre-PC) in 1982. If anything, learning the platforms and how they connect and interact, as well as their "finer" features is critical. However, one of the critical skills I found in demand is the ability to figure a problem out (Troubleshoot) in a fully meshed networking environment.
I have worked from end-to-end, and found in many products along the path, serviceability is the last thing left out by the product developers. Being able to perform PD (problem determination) and PSI (Problem Source Identification) is a skill that is very lacking even today.
if you're good at problem solving (Sherlock Holmes Who Done Its) and can apply that to real working networks, you will always be in demand.
I am on the late side of my career, and frankly am sick of working with people who can't even describe much less define the issue they are trying to fix. Many of these are in positions due to nepotism or cronyism, and should take their hands off the keyboard, back out the door, and not return.
I am taking notes in order to write a book when I retire about IT customer service, its progression over the last 4 decades, and the fiasco I am seeing it descend into...
In case someone is interested, here’s a cybersecurity program from KU:
https://bootcamp.ku.edu/cybersecurity
I’m a short distance from their campus. KU would have to convince me on the employment prospects after the program vs. the cost. If KU does not have a convincing employment message upon completion of the program, it isn’t worth the time.
Anyhow, a lot of that is going to automation.
The future is Automation, Cloud, block chain, digital assets, DAPs, A.I., bots and drones.
What is your connection to the industry?
"Consultant?"
MBA
Tech manager?
Tech worker?
Sales & Marketing?
Or trying to stampede off the competition?
Because you're waving around a f*ckton of slick-sounding meaningless buzzwords.
The future is "bots" ? ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME?
The present is "Cloud" and a lot of companies are worried about safety and control of their data.
Seriously, blockchain + cloud in a single presentation might get you funding.
Building logically segmented networks on the same physical infrastructure, with separate security and access control throughout...and then tunneling that network to another location so replication can occur on the same vlan...is a skill many would never be able to master.
Much less fix it when it breaks.
Of note: that private business network is transported over the same fibers as the internet.
The configuration options at the core, and the edge, are myriad. While not limitless, they’re close.
>> After 31 years in a highly skilled field a person should not feel threatened by the loss of their career.
Unfortunately, not reality especially in the constantly changing IT universe.
Amen, and be very grateful for what we have;
Converged layer2 environments. Always a challenge, especially to troubleshoot if they use each other for transport.
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