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High Attrition rate
Job-hopping is very high in IT professional. They may leave without giving required notice.
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Recruitment cycle time
Recruiting suitable staff will take time, many times selected candidate may not report for duty.
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Right Person
It is hard to get good candidates. IT professionals normally do not prefer to be an employee of non IT companies. This is due to work culture & to maintain employability in IT sector.
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Settling time
Understanding your IT resources, setup, network/ database/ server/ mail/etc and Understanding users, problems, IT suppliers, AMC contracts, etc will take time for new staff.
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Multi skill
Better utilization of IT resources requires specialization in hardware, networking, Servers, multi operating system, database, latest available technology, etc. It is rare to have all these skills in a person. Either you have to hire extra persons OR compromise with the performance.
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Standby Staff
No service in case your staff goes on leave or suddenly leaves the job. There are chances of entire team leaving job in a short notice.
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Extra resource
It is difficult to deploy extra staff in case of crisis like network problem, virus attach to all systems and temporary additional work,
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No Technology update
Same setup, users and problems, Lower expectation / work demand, No challenging job. With this environment IT professional normally do not update their technology.
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Dependency
You are fully dependent on a person/s, But not a professional team and organization.
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Option to change
IT is a fast changing technology. It is difficult to change your IT staff when technology changes OR if your staffs are not up to organization’s expectation.