On 10/18/2013 3:54 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
I believe the "intense service" you mention is a significant deterrent for many.
I'm sure it's been suggested before, but is there mileage in rethinking the
AD roles,
It has been suggested many times. The suggestion has been ignored.
We have been having some very serious recruitment problems for a number
of years now. This year's crisis was entirely predictable.
The only way the situation will change meaningfully is to make the job
less onerous, and especially make it possible for the AD to continue
doing real work for their company.
ADs are senior folk. That makes them a strategic resource for their
company. Or, at least, they'd better be. Only very large companies can
afford to lose a strategic resource for years.
Looking for alternative funding does not make the job less onerous and
does not permit the AD to continue doing real work for their company.
Re-define the bloody job. At a minimum, make the workload realistically
no more than 50%, but I actually suggest trying for 25%, given that
reality will increase the actual amount above that.
This means taking the current list of AD tasks and deciding on the ones
that absolutely cannot be done by others, and specifying other ways to
do the remainder.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net