If there's a tech skills shortage, why so many computer graduates unemployed?
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#2Because tech lies at a difficult crossroads between the applied and the theoretic. You build a building, you have an architect, and engineer, a foreman, etc. With applications, you have to be all of them at once. That just isn't whats taught at universities, based on many candidates I've encountered.
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#31. Standards to pass university classes are lower than the standards to be worth a salary.
2. Accidentally hiring someone who can't produce is more expensive than passing on a good hire.
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#4TL;DR; University diploma != skill
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#5Indeed-- why!
Seems to me the "shortage" has more to do with labor costs than a skills gap.
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Re: If there's a tech skills shortage, why so many computer graduates unemployed?
#7Because tech lies at a difficult crossroads between the applied and the theoretic. You build a building, you have an architect, and engineer, a foreman, etc. With applications, you have to be all of them at once. That just isn't whats taught at universities, based on many candidates I've encountered.
It's something that needs to be learned with experience, yet companies don't want to invest time training people who will probably leave in a year or two.
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#8Ah, the old "shortage" "issue". More likely, there is no shortage - just a shortage of engineers willing to be paid the low wages most likely on offer at these companies
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#9Apples and Oranges. For the majority of firms, a "lack of digital skills" isn't solved by hiring more CompSci graduates.
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#10The article seems to be mostly about the UK, but from my US perspective, there are just a lot of CS graduates with little to no professional coding experience either out of laziness or lack of knowledge (yes, there are people who expect a job with just a degree). There's also a lot of people who aren't that interested in it or bad at it but still manage to not get weeded out.
Add that to the decades-old "CS != programming at job" dilemma and it's easy to see why so many people are unemployed.