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On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 08:39 AM, Michael Thompson wrote:
I attribute *some* of the blame to these certification boot camps flooding the job market and pushing down salaries.
I attribute much more of the blame to hiring managers who can't tell the difference between a manufactured computer geek and a born computer geek. They reward the boot camps by actually hiring the paper sysadmins right out of boot camp.
Luckily, I don't have to work with people who are only qualified on paper anymore,
Your boss can actually tell the difference between a real computer geek and one that answered a radio ad. If he weren't doing so well where he is at, I might be tempted to say he missed his true calling. ;-)
The sudden loss of IT jobs in this country is at least partly attributable to jobs moving to countries with cheap labor, like India or China. When I was at a big blue company a few years back I saw jobs moving to India that used to be in Raleigh. Maybe part of it was caused by IT guys hopping from job to job every 6 to 18 months in pursuit of higher pay, and employers scrambling to retain talent as long as they could. Loyalty in the workplace is *gone*, with blame falling on both sides of the employee/employer relationship.
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