Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
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Re: Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
#2Can't get staff? What a shame. Would you consider starting some kind of training policy?
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#3Their career page says 60k, though.
If it weren't out of area of expertise, Wales is quite beautiful. And I almost understand Rhod Gilbert.
Re: Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
#4This reads like an advertorial. Does the BBC have some interest in getting tech workers to Wales?
Re: Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
#5Can't get staff? What a shame. Would you consider starting some kind of training policy?
Same for almost every industry, training is only paid for if it's to fulfill some legal requirement such as health and safety courses and such.
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#6MyPinPad needs 100 software engineers in Cardiff to roll out a new product
Roll it out, or actually get it written? What kind of product needs 100 additional engineers to launch?
Re: Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
#7This reads like an advertorial. Does the BBC have some interest in getting tech workers to Wales?
No, the BBC has an anti-Brexit agenda.
Re: Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
#8As a tech worker who started close to Cardiff i've slowly moved down the M4 as my career has progressed. Jobs over 60k are rare outside of London - > Bristol and all towns in between.
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#10In the article they say they are offering London salaries. Fine. But Cardiff is not the same as London!
London is huge comapred to Cardiff. Cardiff has about 500,000 people in its urban area compared to 10,000,000 in London, and Cardiff is about 30 square miles compared to almost 700 square miles for London [1]. As such London just has a lot more going on - theatre, museums, nightlife, restaurants, sports, shopping, meet-ups, career-possibilities, transport, galleries... you name it there is more of it in London, and its also generally all very good or even world-class quality. Sure Cardiff has some stuff going on and has its own cultural & social activities, but it is in no way even in the same league as London by any stretch.
As a result you're not going to lure someone to Cardiff by just matching London salaries - who would give up London to go to Cardiff to get the same salary but a culturally and socially moribund (by comparison) experience? You have to offer them something above and beyond. Not everyone likes hiking & nature, and I'd wager that most people in these salary ranges aren't that badly impacted by high property prices in London.
Perhaps offer salaries that are more than London and then see if the applications start rolling in?
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London