Just a bit of commentary here.
If we're any indication of how things are going with Mitel, there's going to be a lot of new Mitel techs coming up the ranks.
We're hiring two new techs as I write this and really I think we need a third.
We're installing and upgrading so many systems that it's really become a problem to get all the work done in a week.
I've seen several postings around the WWW, including Ace's and it appears that no one is available.
The problem is, there isn't time to train newbies.
If you're willing to move and have Mitel experience, it appears you can pretty much pick where you want to move to.
Maybe there's a way to reach out to our Mitel brothers across the pond and bring a few stateside.
Comments?
Ralph
We are in exactly the same boat... tons of work, need trained people, and no one to fill the position. Although we are only looking for one person right now, in my part of the world the economy is exploding and growing rapidly since I am on the southeastern edge of the Bakken Oilfields, so I can see where we may need a second or third tech over the next year or so, especially since we are also moving into a hosted solution and my time to work on "traditional" phone systems is being cut because of that project.
Other problem is I don't think it is much better overseas... I could be wrong but a few contacts I have reached out to say the same thing, they can't find trained people and the issue with training new people isn't just time, but expense and the fact that loyalty is almost non-existent in the telecom world today, people get trained and just leave so management is leery to hire someone, invest a ton of time and money into training, just to have that person leave a year later for a lower insurance deductible, an extra buck an hour, or a better parking spot (I am exaggerating, a little bit, but you get the idea).
