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You are wrong!

I work in high tech and there is a dearth of qualified candidates so this is not something made up by corporate CEOs as a rationalization to obtain cheap labor. When we need someone with the right background, our first and preferred option is to hire someone locally but if we cannot find the right people we sub-contract the work usually to companies that hire people from abroad.

We also do hire people who are out of college and provide them the training and experience but it is difficult to find the right candidates and companies compete for the best individuals. If it is a choice between a mediocre candidate and outsourcing the work, most companies do the latter and it has less to do with the cost and more to do with getting the job done.

This is the reality of what is happening and to think that it is all about the bottom line when it comes to hiring people with the right technical skills is delusional. [/quote]

Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks that industry is doing a lack of training and compensation, and the STEM shortage is a myth, largely perpetuated by CEOs

[url]http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586969/Is-the-STEM-shortage-a-manufactured-crisis.html?pg=all:[/url]
[url]http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth[/url]
[url]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/01/29/what_stem_shortage_where_how.php[/url]
[url]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/09/03/the_myth_of_the_stem_shortage_in_detail.php[/url]
[url]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/21/promoting_stem_education_foolishly.php[/url][/quote]

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