12th March 2009, 11:24 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Oxbeast
I agree tom, (until recently) anyone who could hold a trowel could be a digger.
it is supply and demand which is the problem. however, Archaeology is now almost entirely an all graduate-entry profession.
Everyone trying to get a job in the mid-nineties needed a degree too. At the end of the decade that wasn't the case at all, at least in London. That precisely illustrates the point: when there are fewer jobs than diggers, companies will take the 'best' ones, and impose arbitrary ways of doing so like immediately binning all CVs that don't have a degree on them. When there are fewer diggers than jobs, and companies get desperate for staff, as one PM (jokingly) said to me 'if you shaved a monkey we'd put it on site'.
So, the market reacts to a labour shortage with a reduction in skills requirement, whereas what we want is to react to a labour shortage with an improvement in pay and conditions.
What we need is a shaven monkey test.
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