{"id":722,"date":"2018-02-15T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T08:58:50","slug":"gap-in-the-market-for-recruitment-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/gap-in-the-market-for-recruitment-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap in the market for Recruitment Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think there’s a gap in the market which recruitment agents could potentially exploit. It’s been many years since I stopped contracting. Now back on the market little has changed in my communication with them.<\/p>\n

Lots of roles, lots of JDs, lots on interest. The gap exists between what the JD says and what your CV\/experience says. I really think Recruitment Agencies should start an element of providing Skills Training. No not for new up & coming agents to teach them sales techniques, pipeline management etc. No, I think they should offer courses in real world IT skills, if anyone knows where the real skills shortage is it’s recruitment agencies.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think they should offer courses to regurgitate facts so you can simply ace the certification exam. What is really needed is a course that blends learning the facts\u00a0 with gaining the experience – the ‘doing’ (doing it right, wrong, troubleshooting to turn the wrong into right). Short courses for contractor in-between contracts, longer for those in them.<\/p>\n

With IaaS, SaaS and DaaS offerings from AWS, Azure and prices going down there’s no longer a need to provide a big cash drop for datacenter setup for this. Recoup the billing costs (which won’t be massive) by having agreement to be preferred agency used by contractor or similar.<\/p>\n

In fact you could get the initial design, deployment and configuration for future re-use of such a ‘lab’ environment completed by the first set of people you train. Those doing can produce the training based on their experience in building the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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