> The skills shortage issue, in my experience is the inability to find someone with the specific skills and talents for a given job. It is real, as anyone who's tried to hire in certain areas can testify.
You know, you could always just hire someone with potential and put him through a training program to teach him the "specific skills" needed, or just let him learn them on-the-job.
But of course, employers are no longer willing to invest in their employees* , so we have a "skills shortage."
* They used to. It's my understanding that the first few generations of business applications programmers were taught programming from scratch by their employers.
You know, you could always just hire someone with potential and put him through a training program to teach him the "specific skills" needed, or just let him learn them on-the-job.
But of course, employers are no longer willing to invest in their employees* , so we have a "skills shortage."
* They used to. It's my understanding that the first few generations of business applications programmers were taught programming from scratch by their employers.