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The question would is the easily targeted employees(Internet Specialist) do they get acceptable rates, are they not being exploited........!:confused:
 
someone out there will break something and someone will have to fix it....
 
Over these IT professional posts now. If there is so much demand why the hell don't we get paid more! :P
 
Who is paying more and not talking of cutting cost story?
 
The report clearly doesn't worry about the quality of candidate...

DBA's are easy to find, good DBA's are like hens teeth.
 
Must say, I find it rather laughable that the article says that Network and Systems Administrators are easy to find.

First of all, why on earth do people insist on grouping network administrators and systems administrators into one group, they are VASTLY different skillsets for the most part. Secondly, hiring competent networking people is far far from easy, they are few and far between, and those that you can find are extremely expensive!
 
Same like the DBA aspect... the competent and good quality ones are VERY hard to find and very expensive...

Feel like hiring a DBA Andrew? :p
 
A system administrator can have many skills or very specific skills. Grouping all sys admins together does not show which skills are sought. Is it Solaris, Cluster, Linux, MS Server, etc? Each of them will need a different level of expertise and more specialized skills. Sun Cluster only have a handful of certified people in SA.

The same could probably be said about network admins.
 
Sometimes there is a miss communication between the agents, the interviewer, the interviewee and the actual qualified person that requires the extra help.
 
Glad I'm repairing game consoles for a living. Steady demand for repair work and the money isn't bad :D

Gave up on the IT sector long time ago (got pittance as a PC techie / network controller in previous employment).

Might go into it again when I expand my business though (technical support for Windows/Linux environments).

Will see how it goes ...
 
IT managers were easy to find..... That explains a lot. I have yet to meet a good one that actually knows how to manage his staff and domain properly!
High turnover of useless managers, I predict.
 
IT recruiters

The report says the number of applicants per IT job on that jobsite is much lower than any other industry. (10 applications per job).
The reason for this from my experience is IT recruiters because employers need to use them. Recruiters are very vague with job positions on job sites as they just want you on their db.

You have to go to the recruiter for a personal interview, you get registered on their database and there after no contact. (Abacus and Communicate are two examples). This makes you feel you can't get a job with that recruiter when the opposite is true once you get an interview it is easy.

IT recruiters like giving only 1 or 2 CVs at a time to employees despite not having an exclusively mandate. If you do go for an interview arranged by a recruiter and you asked them to tell you about available positions most of the time they have no clue and they make it sound like they only have only 1 possible job opening despite advertising ten.

I have gone for more interviews with recruiters in my life than interviews with employers and for every 3 recruiters that have my CV only one has arranged an interview.

My hit rate is for every 2 interviews I get offered a job. The employers I have worked for all ask me where they can find other candidates like me because recruiters send them so few quality candidates.

From my experience just to get given an opportunity at a job position in the areas I am interested working in is the biggest thing irrespective or skills, experience and qualifications.
 
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