By Natasha Lomas
Published: Wednesday 23 July 2008
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Name
Haydn Rees
Location
London
Occupation
Technical Architect
Comment
Entry level job skills for an industry with no entry level jobs.
Off-shoring starts as 20% value for 10% price because you can get genius PhD 3rd world IT staff for peanuts.
This very rapidly becomes 20% value for 20% price, as PhD geniuses dry up. As we approach 100% value for 100% price, price-competitiveness is lost, and we start on-shoring.
Unfortunately, in the 10 years it takes to normalise, there have been almost no entry level jobs in the UK. Result, a 10 year demographic gap in the IT workforce. None of the 2013 crop of "Developers with 5 years Development experience."
By the time these support courses start generating entrants to the job market, I hope the real cost of off-shoring is understood, and we get jobs being on-shored. I will not however be holding my breath.
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