Re: -I- Greetings...

I'm currently on a year out (which is not part of my course) to save up to
fund my further studies.  I thought it would give me the opportunity to get
some industrial experience and better prepare me for the job market when I
graduate (which isn't exactly fantastic at the mo).  How wrong could I have
been?  I've applied to Software/Hardware/Control Systems companies and can't
even find an unpaid placement (i'm honestly not that bad ;-) )- they are
hardly even recruiting graduates.

The experience I have, knowing a number of IT professionals working at
various international companies in the UK is that many of them are using
countries such as India for the majority of their design where they have
many employees, but it is left to the UK/US sites to fix all of the mistakes
and bad practices.  I can perfectly understand why companies would want to
employ people from countries where lower wages can be paid but I don't think
it's fair that there are (UK & other) sites whose employees are permanently
at risk of being laid off if they don't manage to fix all of the bugs (which
they didn't necessarily make) and get products released on time

Sorry for the rant (I did warn you), just a little concerned about the
future.

January Girl




"Jed Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Nathan Dykman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I do believe in free markets, but I'm not sure that means
> >> the free exchange of labor and jobs.
> >
> > because labor and jobs aren't part of the market.  ;)
>
> There's certainly a supply-and-demand, competition-y thing going on.
>
> For instance, whenever I apply for a job, I'm competing for a
> first-stage interview with a signicant number of people who were laid
> off from a very similar job in the somewhat recent past.  And
> probably not a few who were laid off from a higher-ranking job.
>
> And this large supply of labor, relative to the demand, means that the
> employer can cheerfully drop my application on the floor because I
> don't have experience in their particular sub-industry, or because I
> don't have experience with some specific instance of technology they
> use, or because the phase of the moon is misaligned with respect to
> the numerological properties of my cover letter.
>
>
> -- 
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