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Originally Posted by fjtorres
(In the US the big issue of the last decades is a mismatch between available skills and actual needs. There is an enormous shortage in many educated or high-skill non-degree professions and a profusion of others, leading to the contentious label: overqualified.)
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I don't know how bad it is over there, but in the Netherlands, it's getting ridiculous. "We can't find the people we need, there is a skill mismatch" is another way of saying "We can't find anyone with 5+ years of work experience with *EXACTLY* the tools/systems we use, and we're not willing to spend some effort to educate new employees."
It's going so far as to reject people with 10 years of software engineering experience because they've programmed in X instead of Y. One of my friends was rejected for a Linux server admin job because he's used to Debian Stable in his former company, and at the other company where he applied, they used Red Hat. Oh, wow. Now he'd have to learn 'yum' instead of 'apt', and some different filenames and locations. Whieee. That'll take an ENTIRE week or so, learning as you go. Nope, can't afford that.
But true enough, this is off-topic.