The tables have turned. The situation in the IT market is now employee hunting and not job hunting as it used to be.
My first two hours at BarCampMumbai have been filled with discussions on the current situation in the IT market. Employers are not able to find good programmers. Or even programmers! People have almost given up on finding the right person for the job, it’s more like finding a person who can possibly fit the job!
And I have heard many stories about candidates. People using each organization as a transit camp for the next. People with little experience wanting to do bigtime jobs. And the complete mess that prevails in big companies with competencies and the kind of work people do.
It’s everywhere. And I think the tables will turn again in the next two years.
Till that time, we have to find alternates. Training is the most preferred right now – take anybody with reasonable aptitude and train him/her into coding. Again, this is proving to be a sword with double edge for small companies. But that’s what it is right now.
I have a few thoughts on training.. but wait a bit for that…