> Why don't tech companies (or any company really) invest in their workers and help them attain new skills and career advancement? Because they don't actually

> Why don't tech companies (or any company really) invest in their workers and help them attain new skills and career advancement? Because they don't actually want the "skill shortage" solved. There actually is no skill shortage. Companies create the "skill shortage" by making the job requirements so impossible that no one applies: "speaks Mandarin, programs in Java 7.1 and .Net 6.5, is able to travel 80% of the time, is a Backbone.js guru...." Just look at the laundry list of "must-haves" in a job posting now a days to really get the true picture. If companies really wanted to solve their "skill shortage" they would look for talent that could be trained to the exact technology rather than demanding that every possible candidate already know the tech stack.