Re: Consulting companies are not recruiting companies

[Daniele Muscetta <daniele () muscetta com>]

Dave Aitel wrote:

> Why isn't your (and everyone else's) company paying for this? I find
> the reluctance of companies to pay for conferences weird. It's not
> like they really cost that much. They'll happily buy software that's
> 50K per seat, but then not spend 5K to train their person on why they
> bought it in the first place. I keep seeing people going to BlackHat
> on their own dollar - it's odd.


I do not have a clue about the reason WHY.
Sure it happens this way.

....it must have something to do with NOT sending their employees to 
training, but hiring consultants for the jobs their very same employees 
could have learned :-)
...and of course in SOME situations you do still need consultants. But I 
consider it worth hiring a consultant to get more in depth than you did 
in something, or to have a "second opinion" (like at the doctor...) or 
even to have another person looking at something where you of course 
might have missed something.
But I am very much a fan of "do it yourself" as a business model.

Sure enough, people who run companies generally think different.
And the result (IMHO, of course) is that employees who see things done 
FOR them, instead of having the CHANCE of learning them in first person, 
usually get used to the company's way of doing things, get lazy, and 
hire even more consultants..... gosh! :-\


Ciao,

Daniele


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