>Companies, even ones who have the resources and should no better, are more interested in finding someone already trained (and griping about how they can't find

>Companies, even ones who have the resources and should no better, are more interested in finding someone already trained (and griping about how they can't find them) than investing in training new people (and of course the fail to realize the correlation between the two phenomenon). In my experience, many prefer to shirk the responsibility for hiring/training entirely by contracting out wherever possible. After some number of prime/sub contracting shops have taken their cut the employer likely ends up with exactly the kind of unqualified body that one should expect for 50% of the base rate they're paying.