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IT Worker Shortages Everywhere

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-i-grow-up-i-wanna-write-programs dept.

Vicissidude writes with news from the IT front in India: "The software industry body Nasscom has warned that India faces a shortfall of half a million skilled workers by 2010. The country will need 350,000 engineers a year, but no more than 150,000 of the most highly skilled engineers will be available each year." This shortfall is fueling a new development, the exporting of Indian tech jobs to the US. But will there be workers in the US to do those jobs? Reader Jadeite2 writes with a word from Bill Gates, speaking to a business forum in Moscow, who said: "There is a shortage of IT skills on a worldwide basis. Anybody who can get those skills here now will have a lot of opportunity."

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  1. IT Worker PAY SHORTAGE everywhere by Martin+Marvinski · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The only reason there is a shortage of IT professionals is there is a PAY shortage! Fix that and you will have more IT workers.

  2. There is no such thing as a shortage. by otis+wildflower · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There may be a shortage of "qualified people who can do the work at the wage we want to pay", but there is no such thing as a shortage of qualified people.

    If you can't find enough qualified applicants, simply raise your offered compensation until you do. That's how markets work.