[GTALUG] Co-op Issues

[Gary]

I think we should all learn to speak Mandarin
/gary

On 19-02-23 09:23 AM, Don Tai wrote:
> The average Chinese dev will make about $10k CAD.
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 08:45, Gary via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <http://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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