Finding Experienced Labview Programmers

I have repeatedly run into the same problem with labview development, a lack of experienced programmers. Over the last several years I have seen an unreal growth is the market for labview applications but it doesnt appear that the developer community is keeping up with this demand. Where can I find Labview programmers to fill this demand. The job postings outnumber the seekers and there are many great positions unfilled. What a crazy thing. I find labview programming is very fulfilling and a great career. Are there any Experienced programmers looking for jobs or is this a lost cause?
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

Are you offering a job?
Based on what I've seen over the past 13 years, there seems to be a number of reasons for this:
Market share. Let's face it: LabVIEW isn't as widely used as other, more traditional languages. There was an article I had seen a while ago that compared the market share of LabVIEW vs other programming languages. Let's just say that LabVIEW aficionados needed to turn away.
Most placement firms simply don't know about the language, so they (a) don't know who's working with it, and (b) don't know about the job offerings, so they can't tie the possibilities to the ones looking for work. I can't tell you the number of times I've talked to recruiters who've called me and when I told them I used LabVIEW their response is "Lab-what?".
Another is simply that LabVIEW programming requires a different mindset, so it's not readily taught in schools. Not taught = no graduates who know the language = no potential workers. Why isn't it taught in schools? Well, that can start a whole debate, and I'm not going there.
Yet another reason, it seems to me, is that LabVIEW isn't as flexible in terms of the kinds of programs you can write. I say this not to disparage LabVIEW, or start a flame war, but simply as a realistic assessment based purely on my own experience. There's just some stuff that you cannot do in LabVIEW, but can easily do in C/VB/C#/Java/whatever. Heck, I recently coded up a large .NET app in C# that would have been impossible in LabVIEW.
Money. And by this I mean how much people are paid. LabVIEW jobs tend to start as test engineer jobs, which are nowhere near as highly paid as a C or C/database programmer. There are exceptions, obviously.
Corollary to (2) and (5): Sometimes LabVIEW jobs are found in test engineer positions on job boards, as opposed to "programming" jobs. This sometimes makes it difficult to find jobs.
Is it a lost cause? Hardly. Have you gotten no responses posting on the LabVIEW openings board here?

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Respect will derive from the quality and reliability of the work you produce, not the systems you use to produce them!
The same is true for them of course.
The people I most respect at work are those who are well grounded in their area of expertise, systematic and methodical in their approach, grow their skill base, flexible in their solutions, document well and organise religiously.
They almost always seem to be the most softly spoken in meetings, listening more than speaking and the most successful wherever they choose to exercise their talents.
Selection of a particular system for your solutions may considerably aide you in producing higher quality and higher reliability solutions in a more timely fashion, that are also lower cost over the life cycle of the solution!
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A black box approach using: -
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These should be based on a requirements analysis document and synthesised into a software specification document using a standard methodology.... I bet they have never seen either and probably couldn't manage some Axiomatic Set Theory....
I would suggest that a strongly typed development methodology such as that encouraged by Labview, results in more reliable solutions more frequently than weakly typed approaches such as C. (Ask them about memory pointer management, type casting issues, memory de allocation and buffer overruns.... ohm yes and of course DLL hell..... that will keep em quiet)
Do I consider my self a Labview programmer?
Not so much as I consider myself a solutions architect -
That is, I will use the most appropriate tool for the problem from an armoury of skills, Labview just happens to be one of my favourites.
Well, it doesn't matter what you use to arrive at the solution, it's the quality of the solution that counts!
Good luck wherever you choose to exercise your talents.
P.S. At the moment I constitute one of the majority of Labview users.... I am the only one at our location.
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