Dire skills gap

bee have chased away a lot of good people away, thats fine i am still here and yes i have asked for more and getting it.:D
 
BrendanD said:
Am I the only white male in the IT industry who hasn't had a problem with BEE?

I also think that the answer lies not in excluding a certain racegroup from an industry, but by promoting IT as a viable career choice to previously disadvantaged groups at a school level. As these people come through the system they will start filling more roles and there will be greater representation of all races and genders. A good way to do this is for the industry to start advertising to scholoars in grade 11 targeting intelligent, suitable candidates.
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I also didn't have a direct problem of BEE or AA when i started job hunting, most companies in this sector try to "doge" BEE/AA regulations because they need skilled people. I do believe this is not what government envisioned when they started with BEE/AA, but it is what's happening, companies are doing everything in there power to get the skills they need, now you read stuff like importing skills, that's bad!!! There still are people here that you can use, oh no wait you can't BEE/AA caps have to be met and you already employ a couple of white guys and the company is owned by 3 rich fat white guys. I got work because I did contract work for a while, to gain experience and not be considered junior any more, that word, I totally agree that companies are not very reluctant to hire "Juniors" they take on big projects, too big sometimes, and need people who can jump in and within a week be settled and meet deadlines.

It all boils down to experience, I can tell you now if you have 3 years solid relevant experience in the ict sector, you will not have a problem getting a job. But if it is a job worth taking, pay and benefits etc, is an entirely different story. But that's up to you, some where out there, the perfect job is waiting, albeit over seas...
 
hyperian said:
Im doing masters in computer science, and my application for scare skills funding from NRF was rejected. Same with everyone else in my class. They obviously arent interested in funding IT postgrad students.
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I got one? Guess I was just... lucky?...
 
While i'm sure BEE/AA is a factor, i don't think it's the overruling factor right now. I rarely see AA-only jobs or if a recruitment agency calls me, they don't care what race i am they just need the skills urgently.

I however think companies that needs these skills aren't always shaping up and making it viable to want to work for them. They need 5 people, they only get 2, but they'll squeeze 5 people's work out of the 2 and blame AA/BEE [instead of their lack of initiative to attract people].

They will do nothing to ensure those 2 actually grows and remains at the company while they get the other 3. They'll STILL freaking pay the bare minimum to those 2, whilst expecting them to be loyal....
They will not even ensure there's people to guide the 2, and just drop them into the deepend and hope they float...

They will almost intentionally create a politically-flammable environment by promoting unskilled people above skilled people. If you have to do it, don't freaking do it where everyone can see and if it's unavoidable at least ensure the "skilled" employee isn't affected negatively [work-load / work-environment] because of it. In short : Don't freaking promote the black junior to become my project manager -and- expect me to hold his hand [and write his project plan for him] while he figures out how to become "lesser disadvantaged".

I also believe if all companies REALLY believe being BEE-compliant is doing more damage than getting the best skills, then they will ignore/boycott it and let the clients that is picking -their- suppliers based on BEE-scores go stuff themselves. They can pick to either build a stadium that collapse at twice the price by a BEE-no-skills company or a solid stadium from a company that picked the right people but ignored BEE. Eventually , surely even govt. departments must realise that they simply can't get the job done with the BEE-complaint partners...[and if they can, the costs will be extreme].
 
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