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Hi<br>
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I've been working in IT for over eleven years(Global Satellite Comms
& Networking and general IT). <br>
About 5 years ago I decided to formalize my knowledge(did it all
backwards!) and headed off to Uni(off campus) as an 'undergraduate'.
Next month(Age 41 !) if all goes well, I walk out with a Bachelor of
Information Technology 'Cloud computing' degree(Deakin Uni).<br>
That said I'll be one of the 1st of a bunch of uni students who have
such a degree title as that major is relatively new in the higher
education sector. So I would imaging that in a few years there
should be a flood of people with similar degrees&majors to help
fill the current void.<br>
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Anyhow the crux of the point I wish to make, is how many of you in
the network industry work and speak with your local big Universities
and talk to them about real world current/upcoming skill set
requirements and to help tailor the education of upcoming IT
students that do ooze out of the system, so they have the basics all
sorted out, mitigating(obviously to a point) problems described
below? e.g In the main cloud computing subject, we did a lot of work
on Amazon/EC2 concepts and how it all bolts together, but did little
to nothing on SDN/Azure and general cloud management software, but I
felt we could have fitted more useful topics in..<br>
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Most students who do study degree's in IT, are also required to
now-a-days complete an internship in the last year of their degree,
usually for several weeks/months. They are not necessarily paid
intern positions, students also often have to go find there own
placement(research employers, and directly inquire and hope theirs
something available). That said, if this industry is looking to
bolster its numbers and overall skills/experiences, it would not
hurt to send some of those entry level cloud/network job ad's or
intern positions you have to your local university(most uni's have
job shop/intern areas that work with current students to help them
move into the workforce or get a mandatory internship.) that offers
courses that your business specializes in, and gives those students
who are nearing the end of there degree, 1. get a foot in the
door(even if its just a internship), 2. If it is in intern position
and you like there skills & attitude you can always offer
employment at the end of their term with you and train them in the
finer detail of the dark arts !!.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Greg<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/05/2016 8:37 AM, Skeeve Stevens
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<div dir="ltr">Most people are having trouble at the moment.
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<div>It is an interesting time that I've spoken about at
Commsday events, talking about the void of skills in certain
areas:</div>
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<div>- Cloud specialisation and experience (AWS, Azure, Google
Compute)</div>
<div>- DevOps skills - Ansible, Puppet, Chef - with deployment
experience</div>
<div>- Network (Cisco/Juniper/etc) + Linux + NetDevOps
experience</div>
<div>- Anyone with actual experience on SDN</div>
<div>- IoT infrastructure experience - even using the AWS/Azure
tools</div>
<div>- Languages like Golang</div>
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<div>It isn't that the people don't exist, they are just
extremely rare right now with most Network Engineers not
having started, or only just starting their DevOps journey.</div>
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<div>Employers are aware of the need... but there is no pool of
available talent for the number of jobs out there. I've been
doing some consulting for a couple of tech recruitment firms
advising them how to talk to their customers about the need to
take someone with 'certain' skills and grow them in the right
direction as opposed to pre-built people with experience.</div>
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<div>Right now I've seen jobs posted, and literally zero
applications for 100k jobs. I think we're in a new era where
the certification market hasn't entered yet, so there is no
body of even offshore resource pool with the right skills.</div>
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<div>Those who re/up skill now will be the most valuable in the
market... especially good network engineers who learn Linux
and how to code... that is gold.</div>
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<div><b
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<div>Looking for recommendations for recruiters in
Brisbane who have experience placing candidates for a
MSP role.</div>
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<div>Currently we have 4 - 5 roles and having a difficult
time filling the positions.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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