"focusing too much on a narrow skill set contributes greatly to the perceived skills shortage" I'd say not just contributes greatly, but is pretty much respons

"focusing too much on a narrow skill set contributes greatly to the perceived skills shortage" I'd say not just contributes greatly, but is pretty much responsible for 90% of it. Employers aren't willing to find talented people and train them for a month or so -- they think everyone should have been self trained on their exact arbitrary technology stack and have a giant github of related projects. This is how employers work: "Oh no! Talented applicant X doesn't have experience with arbitrary framework Z, we better import someone from India because we all know smart Americans can't learn something new in few weeks or a month. Unless they're tech celebrities."