Is the "Skills Shortage" real ?

What are you qualified for? Who have you been sending your cv to? What sort of "useful" work are you specifically looking for in electronics? Are you prepared to move interstate for a job? Are you prepared to do tertiary study to upgrade your skillset, or change career?

There's no denying the shortage in health care professionals. Civil engineers, building services and HV electrical engineers have been also been required, and are paying quite good salaries. Accountants? Apparently there has been a drive on for them, and we can expect an oversupply I suspect in the next few years, but that will eventually level out, similar to the IT oversupply several years ago. Compare the number of jobs available for electronic engineers to database managers.

As I see it, either upgrade your skills, or try another vocation.

Austek Security must think there is skills shortage with them having trouble filling this role at a whopping $35K:

"Electronics design firm in Sydney looking for a talented electronics engineer with industry experience in embedded microcontroller development.

Electronics Engineer

# Developing embedded systems # PicMicro Motorola Atmel # $35,000 starting salary

Great potential to grow with our business.

Must be proficient in PicMicro, Motorola, and Atmel MCU's. Languages: Assembly & C++

Industry experience an advantage."

They might get a 16yo hobbyist with PIC Led Flasher experience at that price.

Dave :)

fact.

apprentice?

Sorry to but in Andy *BUT* you must be qualified to train apprentices. Phil has *NO* qualifications and as such is not allowed to have an apprentice. Being a Uni drop-out is not a skill level to pass onto any young person.

Regards TT

your bedsit while

engineers/techs, in Sydney.

Seriously.

A/V, Brown

Wouldn't Phil need some qualifications first? BTW the last A/V product he tried to fix (an aging set of Quad ESL 63s) he "let the smoke out" and had to take them back for a refund. Sad really, he should have read the warnings on the box and let the authorised service agent look at it ;-)

Please bear in mind Phil *abhors* and *despises* anyone with any qualifications as they are the antithesis of what he has achieved.

Regards TT

business person from Bunbury WA

with the spanner ?

suffering, lonely old fool formally from Lackey St, Summer Hill.

Kindest regards TT

PS thanks for all the free plugs :-)

Electronics

Yes, but NOT in EE. An electrician can now earn more than an engineer in many cases, and have a much larger choice of jobs.

wages

All three.

MrT.

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That's precisely the reason they want to import skilled labour. Nobody wanted to train locals. All the government departments that did it once upon a time are now privatised. Very few private companies ever bothered.

However if they are prepared to pay $millions per year for CEO's when there is no real shortage (or even skills for that matter), paying much less than a tenth of that for real skills, actually in short supply should not be a problem, should it?

MrT.

At last, {:-) someone else who is singing my tune.

They will probably end up on the dole then. Not that many managerial jobs for EE's.

MrT.