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"Elat Lerner" <cx172@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> "motor" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I totally agree with SoL.  The government is perpetuating this myth
about a
> > high-tech skill shortage.  They are totally igoring all of the
unemployed IT
> > people out there that have already invested many $$$ into IT training at
> > institutions such as NAIT and have tons of work experience.
>
> Let's assume for argument's sake that the government is perpetuating
> the hi tech "skills shortage" myth. Can you speculate why the
> government would do such a thing?
>

Why is the government going along with this?  There are several reasons.
1. Powerful industry lobbyist groups who need to keep IT costs down
(=suppress wages) have persuaded the government that there was/is/will be a
shortage of skilled IT people.  One such deceitful group is the Software
Human Resource Council.
Check out this site http://www.shrc.ca/about/index.html.

2. Fits with the government's immigration policies.  The SHRC provides a
link to Foreign Worker Information.

3. Public (NAIT, SAIT, Grant McEwan) and private (DeVry) educational
institutions are thriving when more people enter IT and are continuously
upgrading.


> > I was recently at NAIT and NAIT itself also continues to say that an IT
> > education at NAIT gets you jobs.  This is completely false.  They also
want
> > to keep the myth going because they need students and lots of them to
> > justify their new HP building.
>
> This I can understand (sort of). The college has its own agenda, and does
> not really care if students get hurt in the short term.
>
> My question is, though, how can they get away with it? Is no one
> complaining? Surely if it became public that NAIT is deliberately
> misleading students this cannot be good for NAIT.
>

NAIT is a powerful lobbyist in itself and many just give up and go on to
something else.

> > Being a CST grad I have not been able to find IT work for 2 years.  I
know
> > one CST grad who became a scaffolder.  I know another who is clinging on
to
> > his job like there is no tomorrow knowing that the axe may fall at
anytime.
>
> What about all your other classmates?
>

I know of
a classmate who is returning to NAIT in 2004 to take Electronics Engg Tech.,
a classmate who works for a porn website.
a classmate who left for the US.
a classmate who went to University.
a classmate is taking up photography.

> > Something is really wrong here.
> --
> Labour market discussion for High Tech workers
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaHiTech