Anticlue

I have been hearing similar comments like this for years, firstly while at university studying a business/computing degree where it was drummed into us that the course had been specifically designed to fill this skill shortage (subjects included all of the first six detailed in the graph). Now four years on i'm still hearing about the shortage but i have found that through personal experience that blue chip companies tend to favour recruiting from red brick universities (that don't teach this stuff), then complain they can find the right people with the knowledge ... (can you tell i'm getting bored of explaining the basics to my boss, they dicovered RAD last week)

Very interesting, and i agree 100%.

But now that we're in the field, past the age of the college era, we need to find ways to more easily and accurately train and re-gain these skills.

For myself, when i first got into this field, I had no clue to their total importance. And was just focused on mastering the core skills.

But these are the skills that take us from being technicians, to master craftsman.

And Master Craftsman or Master Craftswoman, is what we want to be.