IT News are covering a shortage of technology skills in the Australian Public Service and, as ever, Gershon is to blame.
Analysts have blamed the culling of IT contractors during the Gershon Review and an exodus of talent from Canberra during the global financial crisis for an alarming shortage of technology skills in Australia’s public service.
The Federal Government’s 2010 State of the [Public] Service Report released late last week revealed recruiting ICT staff continued to be the Federal Government’s biggest skills headache.
I would say that the Public Service recruitment process is positively nerd unfriendly.