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"The problem is that there's a shortage of companies willing to invest in training." This is a sad excuse. Companies should be paying for training of specific
by paulhauggis 11y ago
"The problem is that there's a shortage of companies willing to invest in training."
This is a sad excuse. Companies should be paying for training of specific skill sets to the company, but not for knowledge and skills you should already have to get the job.
This would be like asking a hospital to pay for medical school to get a qualified doctor. It's absurd.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoThe hospitals do have to pay for medical school. If they didn't, nobody would go through it. Here's a cleaner example: suppose getting an M.D. required a filing fee of $800,000. You don't think that would show up in what hospitals paid doctors?
- morgante 11y ago> The hospitals do have to pay for medical school. If they didn't, nobody would go through it. What? As far as I know, hospitals don't directly pay for medical school. Rather, the cost of medical school is reflected in doctor salaries. (Just as the cost of training is reflected in developer salaries.)
- thaumasiotes 11y agoCompare what I said: > You don't [think] that would show up in what hospitals paid doctors? to your > the cost of medical school is reflected in doctor salaries. Yes, I accidentally left out the word "think". But we're saying exactly the same thing.
- morgante 11y agoSorry, I thought you were implying that hospitals directly paid for medical school (ie. the way that some businesses will directly pay for an MBA).
- Leon 11y agoThis isn't entirely what happens. For most doctors at their first jobs the hospitals will write out most, if not all, of their medical school loans depending on how much there are. They use this as signing bonuses and to tempt doctors to their hospital.
- paulhauggis 11y agoThen it's a moot point. Software developers are some of the highest paid professionals. This pays for the cost of any education already (college, etc). The OP is implying that an employer should not only pay a salary, but pay for an employee to get trained.