The trials and tribulations of the job market
I would like you to imagine, for a moment, that you are a company looking to hire IT staff.
Now you obviously want the best qualified and most experienced employees that you can get for a reasonable wage, so you put out adverts for the position stating that any potential candidate should have at least 2 years experience in a similar position. After a few weeks, you're not getting many applications - a couple of well qualified people have applied, but they lack the industry experience you want so you dismiss them. By now a month has passed and you still haven't had any suitable candidates apply - although you do have a rapidly growing pile of "not enough experience" applications.
You read a couple of news articles in an industry magazine about the large number of skilled IT graduates looking for work and wonder why none of them are applying - after all surely they'd be exactly what you're looking for.
Then, and this is where it all breaks down in the real world, you realise that they reason that none of them are applying is that being IT graduates they don't have 2 years industry experience - despite the fact that most of them do have at least 2 years experience of doing the work in their own time - and there aren't any experienced applicants for your vacancy because they've all already got jobs.
The moral of this story is: Stop being so fucking picky and accept that the only way you're going to end the drought of experienced & skilled IT workers is by hiring some inexperienced & skilled IT workers so that we can get some bloody experience.
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Now you obviously want the best qualified and most experienced employees that you can get for a reasonable wage, so you put out adverts for the position stating that any potential candidate should have at least 2 years experience in a similar position. After a few weeks, you're not getting many applications - a couple of well qualified people have applied, but they lack the industry experience you want so you dismiss them. By now a month has passed and you still haven't had any suitable candidates apply - although you do have a rapidly growing pile of "not enough experience" applications.
You read a couple of news articles in an industry magazine about the large number of skilled IT graduates looking for work and wonder why none of them are applying - after all surely they'd be exactly what you're looking for.
Then, and this is where it all breaks down in the real world, you realise that they reason that none of them are applying is that being IT graduates they don't have 2 years industry experience - despite the fact that most of them do have at least 2 years experience of doing the work in their own time - and there aren't any experienced applicants for your vacancy because they've all already got jobs.
The moral of this story is: Stop being so fucking picky and accept that the only way you're going to end the drought of experienced & skilled IT workers is by hiring some inexperienced & skilled IT workers so that we can get some bloody experience.
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1 Comments:
At 2:49 PM, Anonymous said…
I know where you're coming from mate.
I'm not a graduate, and so was starting in the industry without experience OR qualifications, so I had to wait until I got an interview with a company, and then I offered to work for £7500 a year, and they took me on.
This is why I've argued with people that you're better off spending 2 years in a crappy paid job than 4 years getting a degree as you'll still have to spend 2 years in a crappy paid job at the end of it.
Flying Mouse.
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