Raze said:
The end result is a whirlpool of econonic ruin. Less money made = less money to spend = fewer purchases = lower sales = lower business profit = more layoffs. In fact, I can say that most of my musician friends (ones with actual music degrees) are gainfully employed. The issue at hand is that in the mid 90s and early 200s, there was a big push for computer science degrees, and now its coming to bite the IT world in the ass. |
All I know for sure is that my company would hire several new developers today if we could find qualified people; and most of the people I know at other companies are in a similar position ...
It is remarkable the contrast between what we're getting as responses to developer positions and what we get when we have an open data-entry position. With developers we're dealing with recruiters and candidates themselves and we can get a handful of responses after a month, most of which lack the technical and/or interpersonal skills to be successful in our company; at the same time, when we post a job for a data-entry clerk we will get dozens of responses a week, and most of them have university degrees.
While I could be wrong, I suspect the reason why there are a lot of computer science grads who are unemployeed and may never find a job in the field is that they're seen as being unqualified for the jobs that are available; not that jobs aren't there. (At least from what I saw in school) Computer science is a field where cheaters and sponges have been remarkably successful at getting through school with how assignment based most of the classes are, and as a result you have to be very careful to see if an applicant knows what they're talking about in an interview when you hire them. If you're dealing with a new grad who claims to be an expert in "object oriented programming" and he can't answer simple questions like "What's the difference between a class and an object?" or "Name and describe some of the princples of OOP?" odds are he won't get the job.
