Want IT job in RSA

[Anu]

Hey cverbois
Thanks alot .... In mean time i'll try to find more contacts in SA. Hope something works out for me....

I guess there will be few companies who look fr job for expats.. i need to zeo on them... Will drop list of those companies in this forum if i get any.

Cheers
Anu

[jonathanb]

The so called skills shortage is a joke. I have over 17 yrs experience in the IT field and am very good at my job. A year and a half ago the outsourced customer I worked for relocated from Durban to Gauteng and I was offered the opportunity to either relocate or be retrenched. I chose the retrenchment thinking that I would get a job pretty easily. For the next 6 months I applied for every job I could and was told that I would be great but I would either have to take a big pay cut or paint myself black (this is not racist it is a fact of SA life). I eventually had to leave my family behind and come to the UK where I got an excellent job within 2 days of arriving. For the year I have been here I have kept on applying for jobs back in SA but still get the same responses that I did when I was in SA that is even if the agencies even bother to reply which most dont.

I would return tomorrow to help aleviate the skills shortage but until the government lets people get by on their skills instead of their colour I wiont be able to.

That is my 2 cents worth.

[Anu]

hey jonathanb

I agree with yu finding a job is not all that easy.. specially if you physically not present there, And for whites it bit more difficult.. i guess policies need to be changes there....

Anyway my remark was based on my exp....
like there are jobs on website pnet.. for whicj i applied in last sep and they are still open... they keep changing date .... And upload that job detail again and again.. But not able to find people who matches the req.....

Infact when ever i get response... Things get stuck with me not being A south Africaan, I worked in Sa for 2 yeasr with big company on contract.. And i have seeen wat kind of resource crunch they having. They hire people.. and when people get little exp, they leave for hire package...

Anyway... tell me how is job market in UK for IT people
I m seriously considering movng out of india.... have already applied for US visa.. will come to know abt final status in few days.. and if i dont get.. i m going to apply for HSMP...

lloking forward to hear from you.

Cheers to life ( McDonald )
Anu

[jonathanb]

Hi Anu

The jobs you see on Pnet and the others that keep getting put back on are not real jobs, they are just jobs made up by recruiters to bolster their CV database to help them in getting companies on their books so dont think that that gives you an indication of the skills shortage.

Also dont think that it is hard just for whites, it is just as hard if not harder for Indians and Couloreds in SA to find jobs as they dont fit in with the AA policies either.

There are plenty of jobs in the UK but if you are a developer, then India is the place to be as a huge amount of development work is being off-shored there due to the lower salaries.

Cheers

[Anu]

oh thats bad .. so basically they fooling job seekers.....

yah i know it is hard for everyone to get job in sa except few people. And thast why most of them leave SA and go to US and UK... my most of friends have left SA or they are just planning to leave.

yah i know india is going to get lots of develpoment work..infact it's already getting, i guess thats basically work related to Application programming or so... But in BI client very rarely allows to offshore things.. Checked BI market in UK.. looked fine to me.. but as u said.. it can be just show off..

i need to do little more investigation.

Cheers
Anu