SA ICT skills lagging

Perhaps I should just set myself up as an independent contractor, maybe start my own business or something :/
 
Kasyx said:
I have to disagree with this. While for certain IT career paths degrees is a must, companies also need to start realizing that for many IT positions qualifications work differently. I have seen too many job openings posted wherein a company is looking for a sys admin with a Bcom degree and nothing else. They need to realise that, with degrees in IT being what they are, your average person with an IT degree is unlikely to choose that career path.

Companies need to recognize that IT is an extremely broad field and there is not one "cover-all" degree or certification. You want a sys admin? Look for someone with an MCSE or CCNA. Just a regular techie? A+, N+, etc. Employers must have a basic understanding of what it is they want in an IT employee and what qualifications or certifications cover that, rather than making the assumption that an IT degree covers absolutely everything.
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+1

The lack of skills of all sorts in this industry can be solely placed at the doors of Government and Hellkom and of cource the cost of university education these days.

If regulations were relaxed, and sponsored training in basic skills like being a fibre techie made readily available, so many new jobs could be created!
FIBRE TO THE HOME
If this was allowed to be done by private business, imagine the thousands of extra jobs country wide??
Problem is the cost of splicers and such and of course that you are not allowed to do this!
I am a registered FOA technician and found it hard to get a job (my age also has to do with it) but then you see people who are doing this job for your local council yanking fibre cable as if it were normal cable...makes me wonder!!
 
Nutty Grandad said:
+1

The lack of skills of all sorts in this industry can be solely placed at the doors of Government and Hellkom and of cource the cost of university education these days.
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Actually a big part of the mess can also be attributed to companies not knowing what they want, and who is qualified for which roles. As mentioned above, how can a BCom be a requirement for a sysadmin? Obviously nobody is going to apply for the position as it says a lot about the company itself. Which suitably qualified candidate would want to work for a company that doesn't even know what it wants? The work environment would suck balls. Likewise, BCom graduates get to the interview with the technical manager present and can't answer basic questions pertaining to the job because he has no knowledge of it. This would then create the impression that there is a shortage because nobody is applying.
 
TelkomUseless said:
Goverment = AA.

They are looking just to force AA into IT.
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I cant count on my one hand the number of AA programmers I know....1, 2, 3, 4, 5

What it will come down to is there will be the AA figure head employee collecting the highest salary and all the non AA staf will be doing the actual work, this is the real AA policy, the government is breeding a bunch of stupid, high paying, blood suckers.....
 
dudleygb said:
What it will come down to is there will be the AA figure head employee collecting the highest salary and all the non AA staf will be doing the actual work, this is the real AA policy, the government is breeding a bunch of stupid, high paying, blood suckers.....
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the sad truth
 
SA lagging in ICT skills

While this report may be true some how, there are so many ICT graduates in this country that are unemployed with 3 or more year degrees or diplomas from traditional Universities and University of technologies. If the goverment is worried about the shortage of ICT skills, they must start by those graduates whom their hard earned degrees or diplomas are gathering dust at home and most of them arE doing odd jobs as they could find ICT jobs. In my views :

1. DOC, must provide adequate funding to student who wnat to persuade a career in the ICT field.
2. There must be a partnership between goverment and private sector regarding skills transfer as the SETAS are not doing enough.
3. According to teh report released by the CHE regading post grad studies in RSA, have a look and you will see that the number in the engineering and technology sector is a disaster, while the report admit that in RSA, most student prefers part -time studies, i have never seen grants given to student doing the masters part time, but only for those doing full time, why the NRF doesnot fund part-time masters student?
4. If funding were to be provided for part -time post grad as this are the people with working experience, it was going to contribute something to the our techonological innovation as we are beyond number 100 on the report released by Worl Economic Forum..

I rest my case
 
Ok a simple question from me...

What skill or qualification would I need to obtain in order to enter this sector?
 
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