Interestingly, in my profession the media is saying that they’re screaming for people, my peak association is saying that we should issue Visa’s for international recruitment.
That same peak body is publishing articles saying that our profession is demanding too much pay.
Meanwhile with 40 years experience, I’ve spent the past 30 months looking for the next opportunity, getting ignored or worse, getting told that my application won’t be pursued without any explanation. Demoralising is not strong enough to convey the impact of such a response.
I speak with my peers with similar levels of experience and they’re seeing exactly the same thing.
I hung my shingle out 25 years ago as an independent consultant, been through several downturns across my career, but I’ve never seen anything like this.
I think that we’ve gotten to the point where the free market has broken and government intervention is required.