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U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-for-jobs dept.

surefooted1 writes "A CNN article reports that a new study has shown that U.S. tech hiring has increased, despite oversees outsourcing. It mentions that the job market is higher today than it was at the height of the dot-com boom." From the article: "The study suggests that there are several factors in the continued growth in demand for IT workers here. The report said part of it is due to the use of offshoring by U.S. companies, including start-up firms, to limit their costs and thus grow their businesses. That, in turn, creates more opportunities here even as an increasing amount of work is done overseas. The study also said that companies from a variety of sectors in the economy continue to discover greater efficiency and more competitive operations through investment in IT."

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  1. GREAT!!! There are more jobs... by Rifter13 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am glad to hear there are more jobs... but then, why am I making 25% less than what I was making 5 months ago? Hell, when the dot com bubble burst, and then I got laid off in 2001, was the highest I have been paid in my life. It was not a lot of money, but I wish I could make that much again. There may be more jobs, but I think that there is a flood of people taking them that are not getting paid as much. I have over 10 years experience, and struggle to find any decent employment.

  2. the original press release... by hihihihi · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.acm.org/globalizationreport/summary.htm

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  3. Re:It's Obvious by Jim_Maryland · · Score: 4, Informative
    unable to get a Software Developer job for 4 years now

    The jobs aren't going to be searching for you so I have to question what are you doing to find the jobs? I realize you are upset at not having found anything, but my experience is that the jobs are available. Personally, I've recently had calls/emails from former co-workers all trying to cash in on hiring referrals (both new and experienced hires). The IT job market seems pretty strong to me.

    So the questions for you are:
    • Given you have 4 years out of school, are you doing anything to keep your skills somewhat fresh?
    • Are you looking in job markets outside where you currently live? I used to live in Altoona PA and finding a tech job there was damm near impossible so I moved to Maryland.
    • Are you looking at entry level jobs or are you thinking they are beneath you? From your comment about 1 million lines of code, I gather that you feel you should walk right into a high paying job. That won't always be the case. You may have to work at a company where you get some experience and then look around after a year or two if they don't promote you (assuming that you deserve it from your work).
    • Are you networking with family, friends, alumni, etc...? I am registered with PSU for their alumni career link service and I've had plenty of family and friends ask me for pointers.
  4. Re:So outsourcing hasn't killed the economy? by mjh · · Score: 4, Informative
    There's nothing to say the tech industry wouldn't be even more vibrant without the outsourcing.

    I beg to differ. The theory of comparative advantage says that the tech industry wouldn't be more vibrant without outsourcing.

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  5. This is an ACM study, but who funds the ACM? by br00tus · · Score: 4, Informative
    As the article says, the ACM s behind this study.

    While the ACM or IEEE are theoretically advocates for US IT workers, they both receive a lot of money from the same companies advocating no cap on H1-B visas and so forth. Go to ACM's events and conferences web page and click on SIGCSE 2006. Who is sponsoring this in big letters on the bottom? IBM, Microsoft and Sun, the main drivers behind more H1-B visas.

    There are other organizations which are not as in debt to these organizations. I did a web page of my own about this a year or two ago. Any organization like the ACM that takes massive money from these corporations which advocate no H1-B caps can not be trusted to advocate for IT workers. Only an organization that only depends on money from IT workers can be trusted. It's common sense. In fact, these corporate officers usually have more sense about these things, and who is on whose side, than many IT workers.