Okay, so now I am going to rant. if you dont like rants just dont read this :) Six weeks ago I decided to start looking for a job. Im intelligent, personable, eloquent and good at what I do. Yet here I am, 6 weeks on, not really any closer to the goal. I was a business analyst before I had my daughter, respected and highly paid, selected for the biggest projects with the highest profiles. In between I have discovered a gift for training and presenting. And Im good at both. Yet here I am, being told by agencies that I can only expect to command a salary half of what I ended up on 14 years ago and that I stand no chance in training because Ive not had enough experience. Because they dont know me. Dont bother to even speak to me in most cases. They dont REALLY know who I am, what Im capable of. The problem, as I see it, is that everything has been pushed onto the Internet. The goal is to automate, automate, automate. At the expense of human intervention and judgement. Why? To minimise salaries for greater profit. Dont they see that in doing so they are taking out a huge swathe of intelligent, experienced people who would add significantly to the intellectual capital of their company - or client in the case of agencies. And they wonder why theres a growing skills shortage! We need to turn it around. Put the focus back on the human being. USE the technology to build relationship, not just as a huge information machine churning out stuff and filtering the replies until the data is almost meaningless - the only people getting through being the ones who are able to read the system. OK. Rant over. Hopefully, one day soon, someone at the top will see sense and recognize that there is a huge raft of skills out there just not sure how to get through the computerized filters. In the meantime, someone has actually just called. Who knows, this may be it!
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:57:18 +0000
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