Morning all, drives me made when companies stop talented people progressing.
A guy I recruited 5 years ago as a bright kid just out of uni resigned yesterday, he has been telling his current manager that he needs to progress but n nothing was done. He spoke to me about this 3 months ago and after a conversation with the IT Director we put a plan together to move him into tech. architect role with all the necessary training only to have i blocked as his current manager insisted he was essential in the QA role he currently has. I warned her that she risked losing him but she didn't believe me. Now he is going and taking all the knowledge he has with him and because he was blocked from moving previously by his manager he is not prepared to reconsider even for the tech arch role I had set up. Finding good tech. staff here is difficult especially as a retailer we struggle to offer the same career progressions that the tech giants of Google, eBay, Amazon & Salesforce (all with big offices in Dublin) can offer.