Hardly surprising.
The majority of the existing IT department were recruited in the days when the IT help team used to advise callers to "CAD it" mainly because they, and the callers, were at that level of knowlege. [The chief resident IT "expert" in our building used to be a postie driver for the first 30 years of his RM career. Says it all really].
Times move on, and greater skills and knowlege are needed, but that's no reason to see it's part of the "Grand Conspiracy" to shed RM staff.
Most of them will probably return to the DOs they came from anyway.
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ronnie6
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" .....has reskilled half its IT department"
I beg to differ, nobody is being retrained, as far as I am aware, nobody has been allocated a role which fits with their technical capability.
"“During the review, it emerged we needed roles we did not have  because we had never done anything this large  such as software architects, programme managers, security experts and business analysts.
“We identified some people to retrain and they are moving forward. Others perhaps were not up for it, so their career choices had to lie elsewhere."
I'm told this is completely incorrect. There were numerous technically competent individuals in situ with many of the industry standard technical qualifications. I'm told the 'cull' was undertaken after a 1 day assesment (similar to the graduate entrant exam) with no account taken of length of service, knowledge of the business, technical qualifications and/or competency or even a glance at CV's. The assessment was all about RM core competencies. I'm also told that a number of people who 'passed' have subsequently turned down job offers due to their concern about the 'new' organisation. Apprently, at the launch of the new organisation Mr Dargue shouted down questioners who dared to wonder how this could be sold to the business.
The scariest bit of this is that, given he has now got away with this with no complaint from the union you have to wonder who's next. Imagine the scenario if you told posties that they would have a one-day psychometric test (with no account taken of service, knowledge, expertise etc.) and, if they failed, they would be out of work.
I beg to differ, nobody is being retrained, as far as I am aware, nobody has been allocated a role which fits with their technical capability.
"“During the review, it emerged we needed roles we did not have  because we had never done anything this large  such as software architects, programme managers, security experts and business analysts.
“We identified some people to retrain and they are moving forward. Others perhaps were not up for it, so their career choices had to lie elsewhere."
I'm told this is completely incorrect. There were numerous technically competent individuals in situ with many of the industry standard technical qualifications. I'm told the 'cull' was undertaken after a 1 day assesment (similar to the graduate entrant exam) with no account taken of length of service, knowledge of the business, technical qualifications and/or competency or even a glance at CV's. The assessment was all about RM core competencies. I'm also told that a number of people who 'passed' have subsequently turned down job offers due to their concern about the 'new' organisation. Apprently, at the launch of the new organisation Mr Dargue shouted down questioners who dared to wonder how this could be sold to the business.
The scariest bit of this is that, given he has now got away with this with no complaint from the union you have to wonder who's next. Imagine the scenario if you told posties that they would have a one-day psychometric test (with no account taken of service, knowledge, expertise etc.) and, if they failed, they would be out of work.