Dear Sam:
Thanks for the reply and websites. You will excuse my confusion in that
when I went to these various addresses, I did not see even one request for
an employee. In fact the only place there might have been some gold was at
Y2K jobs and there was a place for employers to list jobs at $300 per
listing and a place to post resumes, at $75 a pop - but I did not see one
job listing or one resume. Instead, I got mostly the conventional pap we
are reading all the time of which I have taken a few cut and pastes below to
show you.
http://www.year2000.com (quote from)
"In 1997, 1998 most of IS will wake up and realize they need to increase
staff by 30%, or some such number, over two years to complete the Year 2000
project. If we all require even a 10%-15% increase in skilled staff, supply
cannot meet demand."*
Thomas: This little gem using percentages gives no information. Until you
tell me how many IT professionals there are, 30% or 10 - 15% more is
meaningless information. As the dates are 97 - 98, it still leaves my
question begging, where the hell are the ads for these personnel?
>http://www.itaa.org (quote from)
1999 National IT Workforce Convocation
On April 12-13, 1999 in Austin, TX, hundreds of key practitioners in
education, government, and industry will gather to gauge the nation's
progress in dealing with the shortage of IT workers, highlight replicable
programs that are expanding training & recruitment opportunities, determine
priorities for private sector & government action and recognize excellence
in innovative partnership
Thomas:
Now it would seem to me that a Convocation on April 12-13 is a pretty
rediculous attempt to solve a problem that requires massive allocation of
training, people and matching of skills and jobs. Perhaps, I am missing
something, but it seems like the Officers of the Titanic are about to have a
staff meeting after hitting the iceberg, but first they have serve tea.
http://www.info2000.gc.ca/Welcome/Welcome.asp (quote from:
Give your business a fully customized, hands-on assessment by one of our
specially trained university or college students. He/she will go to your
workplace, assess your computer system and software, and discuss ways that
you can prepare your office for the Year 2000.
Thomas:
Gee, this is such a minute problem that we can take a University student
away from his classes for a little part time work to solve your problems - I
guess this is part of the 30% of personnel required that was alluded to in
the first statement.
http://www.can2k.com (quote from)
of 200,000 COBOL programmers should be added to the existing pool (Under the
assumption that 1999 would be used, for fire-fighting measures). Going by
the Gartner estimates, the total cost to correct the entire COBOL code would
be US $48-65 billion. All these only for COBOL. Add Assembler, PL/I, Pick,
...
Thomas:
Once again I see these astronomical projections for people and money and yet
I cannot find one goddam ad for a Y2K personnel. Is this the biggest hoax
since the tulip scandal in Holland or are we all in total denial and the
Emperor really has no clothes on. I worry more about Western Civilization,
the more I try and pin this problem down. Help me Please!
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 12, 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [GKD] Training Y2K Specialists
>Since a Canadian (Thomas Lunde), having taken a preliminary look at
>Canada, has asked: where are all the workers and where is all the
>training, to deal with Y2K testing and correction?, it is only
>fitting for another Canadian to answer.
>
>I will not comment on the magnitude of the problem, the extent of
>the hype, the level of awarness, or the overall adequacy of trained
>personnel. I will comment on the supply side. First, the market for
>such talent is not found in the newspapers - it is (no surprise)
>found on the internet. Makes sense.
>
>Second, there is lots going on. Enough? hard to say. In Canada, for
>insights into y2k approaches, and for insights, the rapid training
>of front line testing skills, small scale correction skills, etc.
>see:
>
>http://www.can2k.com
>http://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca
>http://www.info2000.gc.ca/Welcome/Welcome.asp
>http://www.itaa.org
>http://www.year2000.com
>
>and for a partnership between Canada and the U.S. state of
>Pennsylvania
>see:
>
>http://state.pa.us/Technology_Initiatives/year2000/
>
>The Canadian Year2000 Workbook is available (in Canada) in English
>and in French.
>
>What is missing here is the political will (elsewhere) for a lot
>more strategic partnerships built on what has already been done in
>Canada and done between Canada and Pennsylvania.
>
>The doing isn't difficult. The deciding is.
>
>Sam Lanfranco
>Bellanet, Distributed Knowledge and York University
>
>
>
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