U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing

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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What *types* of positions are being filled?

[rob_squared]

I'll bet its the senior positions like System Administrators, Network Administrators, and so on.

Monster, Dice, and other job sites seem to list mostly those positions. Why? Because the entry level positions are gone.

Wait a couple decades, when all the people qualified for senior positions are retired, and let me know if outsourcing was a good idea.

Re:Told you so

[mabu]

This global economy:

System Administrator ($60k/yr in the states) ==> India (CHEAP)
Software Engineeer ($80k/yr in the states) ==> India (CHEAP)

Data Entry ($8/hour) ==> United States
Classified Ad Placer ($xxx) ==> United States

Yes, everyone benefits. Some much more than others. The rich get richer, the poor, get poorer. Some really super poor get to move into the middle class, but the middle class in the states gets shafted.

This is how the "global economy" works. As long as there's some pseudo-third-world country where the poverty-stricken populace can be exploited, there will be growth in some areas, at the expense of other areas, meanwhile the middle demographic in these countries finds less opportunity for advancement.

Indian code outsourced code

[mysterious_mark]

Seems like there will always be demmand to fix broken indian code. Those guys right the most atrocoious cut-and -aste hope-it-compiles with deprecation code, generally explodes when it his production. Anyone who hires sketchy indians to write code is on crack! I've made a number of paychecks fixing this crap, they could have just saved m money by hiring me in the first place. M

So.. "I" should be working harder? hello?

[plasmacutter]

I work my butt off in college, i work my butt off at professional levels, they outsource my job and hire me for the position which should involve a raise at LOWER pay just so their execs can suck up more money, but "I" should work harder.

You sound like a supply sider who needs a wakeup call.

Re:It's Obvious

[Hognoxious]

Wouldn't surprise me. Didn't somebody patent the wheel recently?