"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:47:29 on Sat, 14 Jan 2017,
tim... remarked:

just because you know that there is a shortage of workers in one group
cannot help you determine if there is a shortage in the other.

In case you hadn't noticed, the majority of programming requirement is now
for the online space.

agreed

but that's irrelevant to a discussion which stared with me saying

there isn't a shortage of IT staff in engineering

and you saving

yes there is

And the online paradigms are often new and evolving, thus it helps to get
new blood in.

I think that's insulting to experienced staff to say "we don't think that
you can learn this new skill"

I had this discussion very very early on in my career when real time
development was done on specialist development systems and moved to being
done on IBM PC's

Recruiters would say nonsense like you don't have PC experience, my client
can't use you - to which I could respond "but I do have development on PC
experience" (though I was pretty unique in that at the time), but if I
hadn't they would have been saying to a 28 year old graduate "you can't be
retrained to use a simple computer interface" (that all our, left school at
16, admin staff are being retrained to use) - Utter Bull ****!

tim