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Re: Where are they?
@afwriter: Which just goes to show the folly of the "talent shortage" argument. If just about everybody is lacking, then HR's excuse of not being able to hire or promote certain people for certain jobs is a fallacious one -- because the companies themselves are the ones that need to invest in training at this point.
Re: Learning skills in a short period of time
@dcawrey: Part of the real problem is that, unlike other countries (particularly those that place a tremendous amount of importance on and resources within their military), the US offers minimal to no InfoSec education in primary or secondary school.
afwriter
8/26/2017 11:59:10 PM
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Re: Where are they?
And then when training does happen you have a kind of blind leading the blind situation where the people who are training aren't exactly experts in the field.
dcawrey
8/26/2017 12:27:35 PM
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Re: Learning skills in a short period of time
We simply aren't training enough people for technology jobs in the United States. Some of the onus go to universities, but it also seems that companies are going to have to shell out for better training programs. These are expensive but totally worthwhile.
clrmoney
8/26/2017 11:09:49 AM
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Learning skills in a short period of time
Comcast and AT&T are big companies that carry cellphones, cables etc. Maybe it is something more technical that the employees can't learn right away or maybe they just shouldn't have this option for the business at all.
Re: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
@freehe: Moreover, as many forget to point out, the unemployment stats in the US provided by the BLS do not accurately reflect unemployment because they do not account for people who have dropped out of the labor market out of frustration, hopeless, deciding that after x months or x years without getting a job they need to go back to school or the like, etc.
Re: So much stuff
@freehe: Isn't it just as politically incorrect to suggest that non-US employees are smarter than US employees as it would be to suggest that non-US employees are dumber than US employees? That argument is strange to me.
And I agree with you regarding the juxtaposition of how they are pushing STEM education... This has been a substantial problem in the semiconductor industry, and we are seeing it come home to roost throughout tech/STEM.
Re: Where are they?
@freehe: Which only perpetuates the problem.
If nobody is doing any training, then they have only themselves to blame for any perceived so-called talent shortage.
freehe
8/25/2017 11:03:15 PM
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Re: Where are they?
@Joe Stanganelli @afwriter. True. Cybersecurity and network engineering are seen as specialized skills that requires taken training courses. They should be college majors since they are needed more than the hot technologies such as AI and VR. If more companies invested in cybersecurity, network engineering, etc. they would be less of a need for AI.
freehe
8/25/2017 10:59:25 PM
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Re: So much stuff
@Joe Stanganelli, I agree. I work on a government contract and we only have about 10% of the staff born in the U.S. Many companies state that overseas employees are smarter. I disagree. Companies and the government contradict themselves. They push interest for students majoring in STEM fields and push an increase in filling technology jobs but neglect to say these jobs will be given to overseas employees leading to in increase in unemployment for many Americans. It all smoke and mirrors.
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