Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > wouter van ooijen wrote: > > >>> BTW, this afternoon I was watching the 12PM news and I have learned that >>> a company in the vibration sensors market, here in Switzerland, was >>> hiring and they have about 30 positions open. As their HR manager said, >>> they are looking in EU and others countries 'cause there are not enough >>> qualified people here. >>> >> Here in the Netherlands I too hear over and over that we do not have >> enough well-educated people. Turkey is not EC yet, but maybe some >> agreement already exists to make working here possible. >> > > I always hear, for many years now, these tales of engineers and programmers > being scarce, sometimes from the USA, sometimes from various places in > Europe. Funny thing is that this rarely seems to correlate with an increase > in the offered wages. As I think there's something to the idea that the > relationship between offer and supply controls the price, I'd expect that > such a scarcity results in increasing salary offers. Until this happens, > I'm reasonably reluctant in believing there's actually a short of supply. > Maybe there's a short of supply at the offered wages... but that's a > different thing :) > > Gerhard > > If someone is interested.... http://vibro-meter.com/general/careers.html Hans -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist