Well, somebody's lying ... obviously, if you ask the guy who runs the classified ad site (below), he'll say business is great! But if you ask some other sources:
Gartner Inc., a high-tech forecasting firm, estimates 10 percent of computer services and software jobs will be moved overseas by the end of this year, while a study by Meta group projects 40 percent of corporate tech operations will move offshore by 2008. link
Having been personally outsourced, offshored and generally shafted by the high-tech industry, I think I'll put my money on Gartner and Meta Group's predictions, rather than industry mouthpiece Computerworld. But even they can't dodge the truth forever: one of the 'related links' that popped up when I read the article was J.P. Morgan Chase starts two-year hiring spree in India...
Computerworld is running a 3 page story on what tech skills will be in demand for the coming year. They suggest developers, security experts and project managers are in demand. It also comes up with some good news. FTA: 'Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs are being sent offshore, in reality, less than 5% of the 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market had been displaced by foreign workers through 2004, says Scot Melland, president and CEO of Dice Inc., a New York-based online jobs service. The numbers of jobs posted on Dice.com from January through September for developers, project managers and help desk technicians rose 40%, 47% and 45%, respectively, compared with the same period in 2004, says Melland.'
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