Siu Lun

I’ve been looking at job posting in Hong Kong again today on jobsdb.

One thing that struck me today is that a web developer or any programmers in fact requires fairly good knowledge of english, if not at a native like level. Yet, why are the wages still so low? A quick look at wages for english teachers reveals that actually… teaching english in Hong Kong would earn you twice as much average wage.

WTFBBQ?

My hyposis is that there is a huge number of people who claims to be able to make website so supply of web developers becomes ‘huge’.
Bosses are either taking advantage of this situation by lowering wages, or they’re actually usually too old know that you need pretty good english skills to actually be good in web development.

Just thought I’d share my thoughts, not that I care that much. In fact, being an employer myself, I welcome the fact I can get cheap labour. Though I think I would be more generous if I can.

I think the Hong Kong needs a web advice/standards agency where local businesses can actually get information on what a good website consist of and how to actually use the web to increase sales and revenue. Actually… I kinda think Hong Kong businesses needs advice on how to make use of advertising. I’ve spoken to a lot of new startups at the local youth business society thingy and they all say they don’t want to give money to others to do advertising, promotion or websites.

Whatever, enough thinking for today. Later.