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Gartner predicts U.S. will lose 30% of IT jobs by 2010
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Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:41 pm
This article was on Yahoo!'s front page. They predict that number of IT jobs in U.S. will shrink 30% by 2010.
How can American IT professionals make money in this market, or at least stay employed? The answer is education. Over past decades the same pattern always manifests: when times are tough, everyone is studying and improving their skills. When times are good, people drop out of colleges because they can find great jobs anyway.
Yes, offshore outsourcing can save you a lot of money. In our experience - 25-30% on the first year and up to 50% in years following. But you can outsource only so much. And only if your business is IT shop, like a software company. But what about pharma, banks, insurance companies? For them offshore outsourcing may not be the best idea.
For IT shops that do outsource offshore, someone still has to manage these trans-continental projects. Again, this is where education comes in. The mentioned article says those IT professionals who are multilingual are the ones who will be the winners - they are the ones who will manage trans-continental and trans-cultural projects in the future.
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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I say good riddance to those jobs.
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Care to elaborate on your answer?
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Gartner are not that credible, more of their pronouncements smell of BS now, all that will happen is any western country/corporation which listens to them will waste time/resource (money) or cannibalize it's workforce just to find out that outsourcing can be a lot more expensive (overall), giving poorer quality and slower delivery, while the contractors/consultant steal our technology and data i.e. the local software industry get stuffed the same way the industrial sector did, so the local economy suffers and the tax income decreases, so making the outsourcing countries poorer too!
Corporations should have smart people at the top who can think clearly for the corporation, not just corporate new-age drones who listen to cultish gurus, consultants and think tanks when they throw up the latest costly business fad.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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To clarify, some Indian software shops have an adversion to giving bad news, so say everything is OK while things are going badly wrong in the background!
As for education, us busy developers have a limited period of time (i.e. our own unpaid time mostly) to identify and study new material, given that useful training availablity is rare. As for managing, no thanks, I found it more boring, hardwork and stressful compared to developing, the stresses would be even greater when dealing with a possibly deceitful outsourcing company in another timezone.
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