Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (31 mails)

[Chris Puttick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a matter of interest, we and many schools in Manchester are now looking
at 16-19k for IT support engineers and £20+ for more senior people. I won't
even mention what they now have to pay me ;-). Schools and education
generally are learning the difference between quality IT and mediocre IT is
not the supplier or the manufacturer, but the people who make it all work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Munro
To: suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
Sent: 3/11/03 2:57 PM
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Re: Test for prospective employees? OT

Hi.
 
Thanks to those who have answered so far. I think I will go with the
idea that perhaps a practical exercise of some kind combined with the
school's own "tests" (apparently psychometric?) will go a long way. I
agree with the sentiments about pay; it's unfortunate that pay levels
aren't high enough to sustain a good sert of technicians (especially the
ones with family- I found it particularly hard on this wage level). You
tend to get the "less experienced/skilled" ICT Technician this way, but
we'll give it a shot!
 
Thanks again- any other comments are most welcome!
 
Paul