Down To Business: Talent Shortage? Employers Must Take Some Of The Rap

Information Week ^ | 03/05/2007 | Rob Preston

[2ndDivisionVet]

Many Filipinos want to become an American state or states, as they are fed-up with the corruption of their government and poverty. They have even formed a political party for this purpose.

[Duke Nukum]

Many Filipinos want to become an American state or states, as they are fed-up with the corruption of their government and poverty. They have even formed a political party for this purpose.

Cool! They should be encouraged. This is the first I heard of it.

I would think Mexicans should think the same way instead of just wanting to make enough money here to become oppressors back in the cesspool.

[EQAndyBuzz]

""My COBOL/FORTRAN/Burroughs' skills aren't good enough...." How about EZTRIEVE, big market for that!"

Wonder if my DBase3 and Novell CNE3 skills are needed anywhere?

[sarasmom]

Y2K fallout.

CEO's remember being essentially "fiscally raped" by IT "Professionals".

Why hire direct, when people learned to make do with the expensive consultants?

I am not a CEO, but I have learned a bit of IT by osmosis.
Pay the consultant for overall operations, and hire the recent high school grad who knows how to just unplug/restart the Internet connection. /sarcasm//

[A. Pole]

these execs say they're preoccupied with building their next-generation tech workforces amid a looming talent shortage in the United States
[...]
IT pros are all-too-anxious to switch companies, even careers. And given the market uncertainly, they're advising their kids to steer clear of the profession

"talent shortage" bump

[A. Pole]

Many Filipinos want to become an American state or states, as they are fed-up with the corruption of their government and poverty.

And once they become part of USA they will be cured of these ills?

[Mr J]

IT personnel need to market their solutions better.

I look at it this way: If a corporate IT department was instead an independent business, how would it sell its solutions? What value-add would it offer, versus the competition? Could the IT department survive on its own as an independent business?

[null and void]

"Billy, you've been a fine
son, but it's time for a change.
I found a child overseas
who can do it cheaper."

[Mr J]

I believe there's a growing opportunity for high-school nerds looking for employment before college. In fact, I wonder if about 90% of all IT work could be done by smart high school kids?

[Mr J]

Well, if every corporate application package is running on Google's servers, and the only IT knowledge your company needs is how to start a web browser and go to Google, then maybe IT departments as we know them will become thing of the past.

[Clintonfatigued]

It's long overdue for large employers to take responsibility for their actions.

[dfwgator]

There's no problem so great that a government program can't make it even worse.

[Regulator]

Many Filipinos want to become an American state or states

Uh, hate to break it to ya, but the Philippines were a U.S. protectorate from the end of the Spanish-American war to their independence as a "commonwealth" of the United States in 1935. That changed to "independence" in 1946, but the U.S. had veto power over foreign policy and military affairs of the islands until 1973.

If we couldn't cure them of corruption over that amount of time (and we didn't, we left the disgusting creep Marcos in power), it ain't gonna work any better this time.

For better or for worse, they need to solve their own problems, the major one being getting rid of the infection known as Spaniard culture which they had for the better part of 300 years, and are still trying to shake.

[MarkL]

Wonder if my DBase3 and Novell CNE3 skills are needed anywhere?

Well, the company I work for does a lot of batch processing using Foxbase, and our main file and print server is a NetWare 6 box, so you've at least got the rudimentry skills for the company I work for! lol. No, you can't have MY job!

Mark

[capitalist229]

Age discrimination, outsourcing, math requirements, Homer Simpson, affluence and cynicism have all had an effect on our kids' attitudes toward discipline and hard work required to acquire and deploy engineering skills.

BUMP

[snowsislander]

From FORTRAN to Nova assembler, on the job no less.

I hadn't run across Nova assembly language, so your remark made me curious. From a few searches, it certainly is an unusual assembly language for a unique machine. This Nova feature particularly seemed unique:

Magic and Reserved Memory Locations on the Nova

The basic Nova architecture isn't too big on reserved locations or ``magic'' locations, but there are a few. Locations zero and one in physical memory are reserved for the interrupt system, and there are a bank of ``special'' locations in the auto-increment and auto-decrement areas. I'll describe those here. Later machines, of course, have more reserved locations, but those are beyond the scope of this document.

Locations 20 through 37 (octal) in the logical address space (there may be two location 20s in MAPped machines) behave in a special manner when accessed indirectly. When hit via an indirection operation, these locations either increment by one or decrement by one automatically before the value is taken to be used in the effective address. 20 through 27 are the auto-incrementing addresses and 30 through 37 are the auto-decrementing ones. They behave normally when accessed directly. This makes them useful for traversing lists and areas of core.

(From Data General NOVA ® Instruction Set Summary at Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum".)

[Bernard]

Increase funding for recruiting and developing math teachers, and change immigration laws to make it easier for foreign IT pros to work in the United States.

Which is it? Develop internally, or bring in outsiders? And why bring outsiders in, when you can just outsource to where they live now?

[chasio649]

All my in-laws would vote yes in a heartbeat.

[chasio649]

yep

[chasio649]

Read a biography on Genereal MacArthur...pretty interesting how things setup after WWII are still haunting the Philippines...it's too bad MacArthur was too busy running Japan to look out for PI....his family was involved in Philippine politics going back to the turn of the century....it's sad for a lot of good filipinos...they are powerless and many filipinos i know would cheer if the US invaded and took over.... MacArthur always regretted not rebuilding PI like he did Japan....just my thoughts.