I’ve been making fun of the periodic “IT skills crisis” proclamations long before we launched diginomica five years ago.
After a couple of decades, shouldn’t the sensationalism of a perpetual skills “crisis” give way to a more sober outlook? I’m cynical about the “crisis” language for two reasons: It fosters a misleading optimism for job seekers, who assume that investing in technical certifications will lead to immediate employment. Bottom-feeding pseudo-training companies exploit this hope.
The skills “crisis” is usually accompanied by proclamations from companies about talent shortages, when in fact the real problem is a lack of imagination in skills […]
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