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The fastest growing tech company in Winston-Salem now calls the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter home. However, the CEO says he’s having trouble finding qualified people to fill dozens of open jobs.
A new company in Kernersville says it will help people get some those jobs through apprentice classes. Lack of skilled workers for technology jobs in Triad | MyFOX8.com
It seems like STEM recruiters keep regurgitating the ol' myth of the "skills gap" again and again. It is not so much about finding qualified people as it is about finding qualified people who will work for pennies. Am I wrong?
It seems like STEM recruiters keep regurgitating the ol' myth of the "skills gap" again and again. It is not so much about finding qualified people as it is about finding qualified people who will work for pennies. Am I wrong?
BINGO! I've been looking for IT jobs in the Triad area, mostly Greensboro, since I moved at the end of September of 2012. Some jobs I've put in for, I know that my qualifications may not be up to par, while others I knew beyond a shadow of doubt I could do. However, what I'm finding is that these young guys/gals straight out of college, get hired pretty quickly because they're willing to accept basement on salary. Where as it makes sense for someone like me who's been in IT for almost a decade to ask for a little more compensation for the years of experience. I don't even get interviews for positions I know I could do my sleep. For the interviews I have gotten, I left feeling like I really impressed the interviewer(s), yet I never get the position. I've only been offered one I.T. job since moving to the Triad, and their compensation was lower than I make now, without the benefits I current have. So, instead, I keep driving an hour up to Virginia everyday for work.
It seems like STEM recruiters keep regurgitating the ol' myth of the "skills gap" again and again. It is not so much about finding qualified people as it is about finding qualified people who will work for pennies. Am I wrong?
Ohhh.. they can't find any American tech workers now because our science/math education system is so poor in the US..... ooohh.. yeah...
Somtimes I get the feeling companies locate here thinking they will get skilled employees for fast food wages then have the nerve to be surprised when it is discovered people in this state want a decent living wage.
Just a little rant.
Traditionally an apprenticeship is a mix of both classwork and paid OJT (on-the-job training.)
This "apprentice class" however seems more or less like a ploy to herd in vulnerable, unemployed people for hot and trendy STEM jobs that don't exist. The article doesn't even include an application so most likely it's just been written to support a push for H1B visa hires.
...and then load them up with tuition debt.
Or soak some government program to pay for it all.
Which **starts** with the actual PAID job where the OJT occurs.
Once worth is demonstrated there... THEN the employer offers the class.
You guys have a very different idea of what an apprentice is. I was an apprentice for a trade for five years which included five years of night school and 10000 hrs working with a journeyman before I becam a journeyman myself.
I guess the definition has changed over the years.
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