Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

ok things I have said many times before

a skills crisis exists in the minds of

- recruiters who dismiss the experience and skills of those over 40

- those who do not wish to pay the going rate for the skills they require and look offshore to economies that are cheaper to live in to find workers who will work for the rate they are willing to pay

- those to whom the training of existing personnel is a foreign concept and who always seek to buy in the required skills

- those who will not train their personnel for fear that those personnel will be capable of replacing them should they be trained sufficiently

however a skills crisis is being created by these groups

- as without work the elderly find they cannot update their skills

- as those fresh from university find the company will not train them or pay enough for them to train themselves

- as everyone else who attempts to update their skills independently is frowned upon as the perception in management seems to be that a lot of knowledge is a dangerous and expensive thing so lets look for a cheaper alternative

we have the IT industry that non IT people have created and now non IT people are complaining about the result, tough, you made your bed so lie in it and stop complaining

unfortunately you made my bed too but as I had no say I can complain

lets have no more of this bleating about skills shortages and lets start doing something like actually getting rid of all the "ism's" like ageism, sexism and racism in the industry instead of pretending to, tax breaks for training of personnel in employment and take the tax off training for the unemployed