' Stripping ' of the labor market as a method of competition

Lately I have been actively engaged in job search. Acted ' by all the canons ', described in my blog. Found a job in a few days, the problem was no longer in the presence of vacancies and in selecting the specific proposals made by me. Assessing the work done, I noted an interesting observation. it is a subjective. Do not take it for serious study. But answer me a question, have you noticed this yourself?.

It first comes to Moscow, and probably to some extent, the situation is replicated in larger regional centers. On the shortage of skilled workers is not just lazy writing. Typically, one or another branch of the IT-professionals require specific skills. For example, from bank programmers often require knowledge of the Diasoft. Formed ' cloud' requirements attracts professionals with specific knowledge, and, accordingly, as it pushes those who are ' not in the subject '. This results in a certain system of interactions (similar to the ecosystem ) between employers, IT- specialists in a particular labor market. This is not an open system, there is a threshold of entering into the system.

In this semi-closed system often face competing interests of firms. It is noticed in his blog, one of the leaders, taking people to work, a summary of applicants in the first place, he said to himself in the presence of experience in programming of competing firms. Looking through the job, I often come across the obvious competitors, are gaining programmers with similar sets of absolute knowledge, and offer roughly the same wages and working conditions. With the proposal in the hands of one company, I could go to others and bargain for higher wages.

So, my choice is made. Competing firms have not received my. If they continue not to be more flexible, the hiring of employees for them to be a lengthy process, inhibiting the development of software. Or, for the proposed more modest money, they will be able to hire less qualified staff. I do not think there is a direct link between the success of the company, not related to the development of programs ( eg, bank, trading company ) and personnel policies in hiring IT- expert. However, I have no doubt that such a personnel policy also applies to other professional companies, including, on which depends the success of the enterprise. For software companies, unconditional bond can read about it in Joel Spolsky.

Thus, it appears that firms become profitable to inflate salaries, 100-200 bucks to throw a programmer, the applicant company is not a problem. In return, she gets faster than the competitor, the specialist. In addition, the more likely it will be more qualified. In a situation of lack of personnel to be a competitor to put on starvation rations. Thus, a small co-payment in excess of the market is a contribution to the strangulation of competitors who will be forced to either pick up the crumbs, or spend money on training its professionals with a ' clean slate '. T. e. In fact, it all comes down to a struggle for scarce resource.

Again, my observation that I'm not trying to extend to all areas of labor market. I noticed this situation in the field of IT in Moscow. What do you notice?.