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Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family
Stony Stevenson writes "IT staff are 'overwhelmingly' happy to recommend their profession to their children, a survey has found. Three-quarters of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed said that they would 'definitely recommend' a career in the business to their offspring. Around 70 percent also felt that their jobs are secure, and that they are expecting a salary increase next year. The survey also found that 86 per cent of respondents expect to move jobs voluntarily in the next three years."
> And they'll have MUCH less competition from H1-Bs. Actually, they'll probably be wrangling teams of them.
1) H1-B are far from the biggest threats. IT jobs are being aggressively sent off-shore - that is a much bigger threat. Practically anything that can be done on a computer can be done from off-shore - and done for a lot less than most Americans would want. It is much easier to send an IT job off-shore than a manufacturing job. Do I need to remind you what happened to manufacturing jobs in the US?
2) As I understand it, many IT managers in the US are Indians, and many of these new Indian managers have a strong preference for hiring other Indians.
3) Take a look at this post, I responded to similar comments:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=553136&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=23409572#23412406