[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Karanbir Singh]

On 09/01/2009 11:22 AM, Alex Smith wrote:
>>> Computer Science has any applications to working in IT?
>> Are you, perhaps, using the term 'IT' to mean sysadmin and helpdesk
>> support roles only ?
>
> No

In which case, I guess the education system in this country is failing - 
  as it isnt producing  any relevant skills. Is that really how bad 
things are these days ? I dont know enough people who have been through 
the academic computing process in the last few years, definitely not 
enough to have an opinion on the 'state of play'.

On the other hand, I do know quite a lot of people who went through the 
engineering degree's and masters programs in the mid to late 90's and 
also in the early 2000's. And as I've said before in this thread - by 
far, the best programmers that I know are people who come from this lot 
of graduates. There are always the exceptions, but there are very few 
who have actually been able to get back into the theory of coding and 
been able to learn / grow from there outside the academic process.

And lets not forget that a very large part of 'IT' is things like 
automation, process control, embedded platforms etc. Almost no one will 
get into any of those sort of areas without already having some level of 
experience or competence - much of which comes from academics, perhaps 
not always a degree.

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219 at icq
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug