What's the chance that jobs in the insurance (Health & Life) and financial services industry are going to be outsourced (en masse), and if it has already begun, to what extent might it go?\n\nThx in advance, and make it a great day.
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It has started long back abt 4-5 years not its on its peek.\nFinancial and insurence are two major areas..!!\nit will still raise ..and become stable in the few years may be next 4-5 years...as the peopleare becoming are more and more health consious..
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haha.  that's funny. its all terrible. look at the economy crumble. booom. oh and don't try canada. that health system is going down hill too. clinics that do non insurance work are expanding. oh why? cause no one has insurance. whooot whoot.\nso try there\n\n50K as a file system? try a class in medial billing and coding. friggin awesome use of time. you might even get a pannel of cubile to call your own. maybe even two pannels.
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A lot of that work has been outsourced to India, I'm sorry to report.  \n\nWe've got good resources for that kind of job hunt in Milwaukee, but they are local sites, not global.
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In my mind, and this will get you started, the biggest issue facing us today is the use of 'outsourced labor' in such industries as IT and manufacturing. The big concern is that a product can be manufactured outside of the country, for a huge cost saving. Labor costs across the globe are far from equal which means that a company can maximize it's profits by reducing production costs. Many manufacturing companies have been doing this for years by taking advantage of ridculously low production costs in China. The trend started to spread to the IT sector in the 1990s when Indian labor became a viable option. Today, when you call a product support number, or even when you call your bank, you may find that you are speaking with an individual in Bangalore.\n\nOne obvious concern is that no attention is paid to domestic unemployment which is bound to increase as a result. To put that into context, you may have an engineer or a software programmer who has studied for years, suddenly find him/herself in an ever diminishing job market.\n\nAnother issue that has been evident for some time is the use of 'sweat shops' in foreign countries to produce clothing and footware. Nike has been accused of using ultra-cheap labor to produce its shoes, for instance. And, did you know that 'The Simpsons' is partly produced in Korea?
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Right now, most majors requiring higher math skills are in great demand.  There is currently a shortage of engineers, accountants (because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accountants are being recruited directly out of school), computer science people, etc.\n\nUnfortunately, many of these jobs can be outsourced overseas.  I think that if you become a CPA (as opposed to an ordinary accountant), your chances having your job outsourced will be lessened because you will have to travel to the client, who would be US-based in most cases.\n\nManagement Science currently show the most promise.  It's new and it's considered the Next Big Thing.   The January 23, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek made it their cover story.  Check it out.\n\nAnyway, if you're really good at math, there are a number of fields that you can go into.  Just make sure that you look ahead a few years to see where the jobs in that field are going.
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Great career choice both in the industry and the academia. Definitely more creative than finance or even IT (except when you are creating the next Google). \n\nThe con is that marketing types are more likely to be laid-off in a downturn since marketing spend is still treated discretionary in many companies dominated by engineers or the finance types. \n\nHowever the paid-search phenomenon is changing that perception and making marketing more measurable and accountable, so future of marketing looks bright.
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I can say that I am mad about the outsourcing of jobs and the dependence on foreign items, but I cannot answer the question based on facts. My opinion is that we're being outsourced because its cheaper to produce things outside the US. Our dependence for foreign items comes with the outsourcing of jobs and perhaps that we can't preoduce itmes for ourselves fast enough that we look for outside items. I would like the politicians who benefit or support outsourcing to be ousted from Congress.
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I think the "logic" is, hey, we outsource all our other jobs, why not outsource our security as well?
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Its just business and such things happen in open markets. If two companies become one it should not be seen as a threat to human resources. What do you think of current issue of Mittal Steel and Arcelor.
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I really believe in the future we are not going to have a shortage of college educated, degree holding, psychology majoring, individuals in this country....and there is nothing wrong with that...but a shortage of well trained and qualified mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, hospital workers, etc....supply and demand will dictate the degree of compensation. Our manufacturing industries are all but lost due to so many factors that would take hours to talk about, and that is sad. I agree with you, we need revamping of the system.....from the top down.
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NO. I think that would be impossible. We cannot flourish if people are not working. Outsourcing causes Americans to loose jobs. Think of the problem on an individual level, if as an individual you cannot take care of yourself and have to depend on others what would happen? Just like individuals our country needs to be self sufficient.
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Wow. Or, as Spock would say;\n\n" Faaaaaasscinating! " \n\nYou're right, though. It's because people, particularly in the service industry and, if you are a political echo as well, are compelled to demonstrate what is clearly not forthcoming generally. It's a pretty gloomy time in human history presently. Some of us haven't lost hope. Some of us keep a posture of expectancy, as well we should! Thanks for your offer. Realistically speaking, my problems are fiscal, purely. And only for now. Again, thank you.
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Outsourcing is not against rules of economics, it is against the rules of Politics. The new laws in UK prove that politicians can go to any extent to protect their vote bank.
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I don't think you're really posing this as a question, as much as a general gripe, and I can understand your frustration very well. \n\nOne response would simply be to note that the US economy has swung quite forcefully to a service employment base. It can be argued that it's not always necessary to manufacture the product, as long as enough people are employed in the fields that move, deliver, market and sell the product. \n\nEvery car in the world can be made in Outer Mongolia, but someone has to ship the vehicles to the countries where the buyers wait, someone has to program the computers to track the shipments, someone has to unload the vehicles when they reach the port, someone has to write the commercials that will sell the cars, someone has to film the commercials, someone has to serve as the product spokesperson that appears in the commercial, someone has to prepare the cars for sale at the dealership, someone has to sell the customer the car, someone has to arrange their financing, and someone has to change the oil every 3,000 miles. (and you know I've left out a lot of people in the chain).\n\nYes, the United States was once much more of a manufacturing country, but the undeniable fact is that our public policy choices about the environment, about worker safety, about "fair and reasonable" pay, about retirement plans, and on and on are not shared by other countries, inevitably making it "cheaper" to manufacture many products in other places around the world.\n\nDon't forget the underlying basic premise of capitalism - companies exist for the sole purpose of returning profits to the owner/investors. Under that premise, a company MUST produce its products at the cheapest possible cost. \n\nSo let's see - if you want to blame something for the fact that most manufacturing now occurs overseas, I guess you'd have to blame either:\n\na> Workers for expecting a safe workplace\nb> Workers for expecting a decent retirement\nc> Workers for expecting a decent standard of living\nd> Customers for selecting the cheapest of two equivalent products  or\ne> The economic system of capitalism upon which just about all the historical financial success of this country has been based.\n\nIt's easy to blame the companies for every lost job, but the companies do exactly what they're programmed to do - and exactly what they've done for years and years. Jobs would have moved to China, India, and the former Soviet republics 200 years ago if the infrastructure had existed to move the products to this country, track them on the way, and build modern factories in the middle of nowhere. Blame computers, airplanes and the modernization of technology.\n\nIt's not as simple as the people who say "*#(#$*# the companies for moving all our good old American jobs overseas just so they can squeeze another couple of bucks in profits" want you to believe...\n\nThough certain people would prefer that you understand it that way.
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Funniest thing I've read on here. The young, new work force generation will age also, so will something similar to 9/11 happen again? I hope not. You're crazy.
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Please visit this web page :\nhttp://www.globalenvision.org/library/3/702/\nYou'll realise that America's outsourcing began well over 300 years ago !