RE: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?

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From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: June 15, 2007 9:29 PM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?

On 06/15/07 18:44, David J Dachtera wrote:
Dave Froble wrote:
John Smith wrote:

4) What about staff retention - have they mentioned that their
staff may
want to have relevant *marketable* experience with the
technologies that can
get them new jobs if the company downsizes/outsources them? I'm
sure that
has to be in the minds of everyone in the IT divisions except
perhaps the
CIO.
I see this argument used all the time. Frankly, I don't understand
it.
Is it part of an employer's responsibility to train employees for
their next job?

It depends.

Part of keeping good people includes training them to be more and
more
productive. It's common knowledge that keeping good people is
cheaper and less
risky than turning staff over just because of technology changes.

However, replacing a $100,000 employee with "lots of process
knowledge that might not be so useful anymore" with a $60,000 "knows
the new tech" new hire is easier for the employer.


Bottom line question is whether it is easier to train the old employee
with new technologies and keep that invaluable experience, or teach the
rookie about all of the business, support, app development processes
that the Company uses.

Since almost all environments requires some interfaces between the old
and new applications, teaching the existing employee the new skills is
an order of magnitude cheaper than hiring some rookie.

Especially if the old-new interfaces are required, because developing
these often requires a good understanding of the old environment and the
new technologies.

And I know it is not to common these days, but I would also ask if the
new technologies really add value or is it being driven by hype in the
App / EA groups or consultants on board who want to expand their CV's?

Regards


Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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Fax: 613-591-4477
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