[GTALUG] Co-op Issues

[Gary]

Here's an interesting article from the U.S. census bureau, which likely 
applies to Canada as well:

"The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 74 percent of those who have 
a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering and math — 
commonly referred to as STEM — are not employed in STEM occupations."

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-130.html

This is not surprising because according to payscale.com the average 
Indian programmer makes just $8,300 cdn for the entire year.  IBM now 
has more employees in India than it does in America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html

Industry is making a concerted effort to perpetuate the skills shortage 
myth so that they can beguile politicians and persuade them to open the 
floodgates of immigration. This has the effect of saturating the market 
and lowering wages.

And they have succeeded:
https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Computer_Programmer/Salary/5f88d602/Toronto-ON
Note that a letter carrier makes more money.

/gary


On 19-02-22 07:03 PM, nick via talk wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I don't know if someone would be willing to give some advice on finding Co-op.
> For the last two semesters including semester I've been looking and found very
> little for my skills. Don't know what's up as literally getting in contact with
> folks at AMD got me contacts. Maybe someone has experience with the CO-OP program
> either hiring or otherwise.
>
> If someone wants a resume that's fine I would prefer to send it directly rather
> than to a public list through,
>
> Nic
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