Digitalbrain has been looking for new systems administrators for it's main platform services (Linux based) since the first of the old team resigned in April. During this time we've hired two new people. Ie it seems to take over two months to find each sysadmin!

Digitalbrain is still looking at least one more systems administrator.

So where are all the Linux sysadmins?

Digitalbrain is based in the lovely city of Brighton, commutable from London and anywhere in between. The salary being offerred is reasonable and we have enlisted the help of several recruitment agencies.

Yet we get few CVs. Fewer still get to start our interviewing process (which is initially two simple 'homework' questions). Practically no one seems to make it beyond that, only about 5 in the last four months.

I can't see that we're doing anything wrong. So perhaps the IT skills shortage that I keep reading about is real?

Or are our standards too high?

I shall be publishing one of our 'homework' questions in my next post and will then also publish a few (nameless) submissions that we've had, so you can judge for yourselves.

One other result of this recruiting difficulty is that I will now be staying on at Digitalbrain until Christmas!