ALHOLK Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 Hi! This morning on the tube I read an article about a german driverless truck. According to the article this was possible as the truck was fitted with a CAN computer. I assume that they are refering to the CAN bus which has been used in heavy trucks for a long time. The journalist should work as a recruiter or perhaps it's the other way around, recruiters that are layed off could get a job as journalist. :grinyes: regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thalenoi Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 I have 30+ years in It, from programmer to SAP consultant via European Support Manager, whatever that might mean. My last job was as senior ERP consultant. After SAP implementations dried out before the Y2K bug (my company sold me as a Y2K expert to do a full blown german factories Y2K audit in the meantime :onfire:) SAP consultancy never took off again. We also were specialised in developing CORBA compliant systems for severall countries customs department and police theft systems. All went down the drain. From a 300+ people organisation less than 100 remain in function. Myself am on "very long" sick leave and I have no wish to get back in business. I sympathise with the whole IT sector however. I have seen The IT industry growing from 1968 to 1999. Lets hope good times will come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted February 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 thalenoi, There ARE jobs here in Brissie, but the competition (and the wish list) is outrageous. How any of the grads are getting jobs is beyond me - its tough on them at the best of times. One of the ladies I worked with went for a web developer job the other day, but she isnt confident as they've told her that they are flying a prospect up from Melbourne. This is a girl with 2 years commercial web development experience - they arent looking for the CIO of IBM here ! Just for the record, these are the skills which seem to be in big demand in Brisbane at the moment (as per seek.com.au) : .NET - C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET etc ORACLE - particularly with FORMS, Financials etc Java - J2EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MS Admin - MCSE+SQL Server+Citrix+Linux+... JD Edwards - OneWorld PROGRESS V9 GUI Unix Admin : HP-UX Peoplesoft : Admin and Devt As I said, there are jobs. The catch is that they want people who have some pretty incredible combinations of these skills, and they dont want to pay them the kind of rate that such people were demanding a couple of years ago. The worm will turn when the next 'skills shortage' (web services : companies arent willing to train anyone, but they are all getting on the bandwagon) forces prices back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 Hi! Precisely this happened in Sweden in the early nineties when I was laid off from the university I was working at. I went to several interviws where they said that a year earlier they would have hired me without calling me to an interview but now they knew that they could find someone with the exact profile they were looking for. As a former researcher I had broad knowledge of programing, operating systems and technical/mmathematical algorithms but not of comecial development tools. Two years later the same people were whining about it being impossible to find skilled labour. regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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