People from India and China come to US and take high-paying skilled jobs. Now, even outsourcing to these?
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This area presents an interesting twist on the immigration question.  Based on a multi-part NPR report on this very matter, it seems that the US Labor Dept. feels that the increasing incidence of filling these "highly skilled" positions (engineering, etc.) with Indian and Chinese workers (on legal work Visas) skews the response of our insitutions of higher learning.  i.e.  We aren't stressing "Widget Engineering" enough in post grad study--- if it's Widget Engineers we need???   Companies must prove their inability to find such workers before they can hire and bring over these professionals.  Then it takes several years to obtain permanent citizenship.  Many leave the US and take jobs elsewhere when they cannot complete the process.  LEGAL immigration is a slow and complicated process---if that were the only contributing source of immigration we'd be fine.  ILLEGAL immigration is another thing altogether.\n\nMy concern is for American jobs, our overall economy, in this new "Flat World" (globalized economy) we need to restructure our college curriuculum, student loan program, public school math and science curriculum or WHATEVER it takes to help produce the professionals needed for these US based jobs.  \n\nIt seems that we our youth just isn't as "motivated" as those from countries where opportunity is more limited and personal wealth is significantly less.  If we have a complacent, un-motivated youth---the least we can do is provide an educational system that equips those who are competitive with the skills needed to meet the demands of the job market.\n\nThis is a complicated problem.  It's encouraging to see some dialogue on the matter.  Problems are never solved by screaming at one another, but by sharing ideas and finding workable compromise.\n\nLet's look for candidates who feel that way too--VOTE.
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accountants are still in demand. One of the few professions that have not been farmed out to China or India yet. Engineering is also an option.
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Part of it has to due with their huge population. A lot of jobs have been outsourced to China because they can make it cheaper because they don't have things like a minimum wage like America. Therefore they can always "find someone else" to fill a job.
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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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Is this a question, or a resume? As far as outsourcing to India, what a joke, thats why the economy is going to hell. shipping our jobs overseas--why pay $20 an hour when you can outsource to India for 20 cents
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If you are talking about the US there are a few major reasons. \n\nFirst outsourcing is killing the US economy. The top growing job from what I understand is in outsourcing companies. \n\nWage scale has created a situation where white collar workers cannot retreat to trades or labor without suffering a dramatic loss in lifestyle. Ilegals have taken over whole industries. Trying to get a job as a framer for example in an area that has a large number of ilegals is almost impossible for a non-hispanic or even a Hispanic who does not speak Spanish.  By working for far less than most American's can afford to work the pay scale on such jobs has  dropped considerably. \n\nA sluggish economy and collapsing credit means there are fewer oppotunities to start a new biz and fewer new businesses are surviving. \n\nWe are falling behind on innovation. Education is getting more difficult to aquire, especially in math and sciences. Research budgets are being slashed or elimanated completely. \n\nTaxes are too high. My taxes two years ago would have paid for my car brand new. What I paid out in taxes over a five year period would have bought my house. How can anyone save when taxed to death like that? \n\nA 2 income family is a must today. Women cannot choose to work they must. This means a large number of families that might be a one income family are forced to be two income famiilies taking jobs from singles and lower income brackets that also need the same jobs. \n\nOther nations are finding their competitive edges. China and India in partuler are blooming economies that would compete with us even if we were not stupid enough to just ship our industry over to them. So the export market is getting tighter each year. \n\nThe US has for years traded favorable access to our markets in exchange for political concessions. We do not have the wealth to do this any more. \n\nNAFTA has left a trail of destruction in both the US and Mexico. It was designed for trade between the US and Canada and purely to not appear racist Mexico was included to the detriment of all. Both the US and Mexico has lost jobs over it. US highways are now less safe just to add insult to injury. \n\nUnions have made it economically cheaper to move many industries overseas. This takes away the factory and management jobs. It takes away maintence and building jobs. It also takes away service industry jobs that these people would have generated. \n\nCorporate stupidity. The obession over this quarter's bottom line is the biggest culprit. It has led major companies coming apart at the seems as little as five years later when a company chooses to make a profit this quarter ignoring the implications down the road. This is by far the biggest reason. Take outsourcing for example. Once you outsource enough of the IT jobs the next generation of software will be written over there not here. Who needs managers when all the jobs are over there? Would it not make more sense to hire managers who live close to where the actual work was being done. What exactly is going to prevent these workers from hijacking the knowledge they gained working for a US company and starting a competing company based over there? Nothing, this company will have a sudden huge edge over the stupid US company that gave it's ability to compete away. \n\nCompanies make deffective products, products which have engineered obsolescence. Companies feel like they can shove whatever they want down the consumer's throat and that the consumer will take it. Big Corps who are laying off workers then paying exec multi-million dollar bonous and other what amouts to theft from the company payments. The simple attitude that the consumer is somehow an enemy assures so many stupid decisions on the part of corporations. \n\nFixing this will be a difficult task as so many people will scream the second you try to make a real change. Big Biz and special interst groups have bought legislation to assure this outcome without
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So far, economic globalization has hampered diversity in several ways around here. \n\nIt's reduced the number of options people in my community have for work. Most of us, no matter what we invested in our education, or what sort of vocational credentials we have, have had to take jobs in the low-paying retail or food-service sector.\n\nAs our wages dropped, so did the amount of taxes we could pay for public services, and so the condition of our neighborhoods has deteriorated badly. Crimes against property, violent crime, and vice crimes, have increased in the area.\n\nThe people who could afford to move have moved out of state to the few places left where they could find high-paying work. I know of several college graduates who've had to move overseas (one moved to India) in order to work in their field of interest.\n\nHuge, cheap, "big-box" retailers, who outsource the production of their goods overseas, have moved into the area and replaced most of the independently-owned shops, because we could no longer afford to purchase quality products from local producers and retailers.\n\nHonestly, I'm a little worried about economic globalization.
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depends, in the uk they are getting higher since all the techie jobs are heading east ... if your indian its a good place to be.
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Americans.\nThey make the whole world work for them they get the most educated most qualified people to work for them.They make the whole world save for them.\nIn the process they amass wealth,true other nations benefit as well but that's peanuts when compared to what they are making.It's America America America.\nWith all the brains(?) Indians and Chinese struggle to make ends meet for a majority of there population.Apart from that Indians are lazy bones and chinese find themselves trapped under oppressive regime with no room for creativity and open thinking.\nIt's the final goods that matters.Note that there's been not a single  Nobel Laureate from independent India.Americans are swimming in Nobel Prizes.Chinese are a bit ahead in that front but again are stuck with communists.
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I live in China now, China is booming and cheap but that will soon change, about 10 years ago everything was made in Korea for the same reason and 20-30 years ago all made in Japan. 100 years ago it was all made in England...etc. Its because as poor countries get more skilled they can make things cheaply and of high quality, as the people get rich they don't want to work in just making things they want to design them and invent them, and it goes off to another country to make it. The USA designs most things made in China and takes 75% of the profit from it... so you guys shouldn't complain, you are using the Chinese as cheap labour. Soon everything will be made in India anyway.
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You shouldn't have any problems getting an IT job IN INDIA.  Most of our American jobs are going to China and India.  Wouldn't that be ironic if you got a job here in America and all of a sudden it were outsourced to India.
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Short answer, no.  China is certainly making gains though, but nobody else is really close.  Canada probably could if they wanted to--but they seem content.  The UK isn't there either, but they're at least in the same ballpark.\n\nYou'll read a lot about manufacturing and customer service jobs being sent overseas.  While that may take away jobs from the US, and may be a bad thing, most of the very high paying jobs are still in the US.  Plus, like the last guy said, we still have the largest Army and Navy.  Most of the best universities in the world are in the US.  Therefore, most of the newest inventions and innovations (hybrid cars being further developed, hydrogen for energy, etc) are taking place here.\n\nDon't worry about it ;)
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in India...\n\nget ready for the heat ppl\n\nalthough even now jobs are being outsourced from India.  Indian computer firms like Infosys and Wipro are contructing campuses in China, Vietnam etc...\n\nThe labor in Indian cities (Bangalore, Mumbai etc...) is earning more so the the price incentive is less like it was before.  The companies are branching out into smaller Indian cities but the firms are also oursoucing/recruiting.  Infosys(i think it was infosys) is recruiting Americans to come to india, get trained, and then they are deployed all over the world\n\nwhat a world we live in today...everything, like my friend Tom Friedman would say, is FLAT!
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It's the same in the US -- foreign-born, low-skilled workers being exploited by greedy employers for big profits. Many of whom only have marginal skills in the job they're doing. The workers send much of the money they earn home so their earnings do not contribute to the local economy. They often live in squallor detract from the quality of life of the people that build these communities. It's a big problem. \n\nIn the town where I grew up (homes are now selling for $400-500k and taxes often are over $10,000) people don't want to put their children in the public schools because of the gangs that have sprung up with recent immigrants.
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Yes. There are millions of people who would like to come to America to make a living.
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If your a business owner it does wonders for your income. Think about it there are only 300 mil people that live in the USA. 3 bil in China and 1 bil in India. What if as an owner you could tap into that market with those 2 countries alone? Now imagine tapping into the world market. The facts are  that we have more jobs being imported than exported. Yes, Look at all the Foreign Auto makers alone, Honda,Toyota,Hyndia, etc..There are several German Co. and French Co. too. on the other hand most of the jobs being exported are Labor/Manufacturing jobs. \n\nThis is causing the people of the US to step it up a notch and get an education w/ skills.. (i.e. Scientist, Chemist, Computer specialist) These types of position allow for our country to be forced to expand our entrepreneur spirit. Which made this country great! Global Market is good for us.
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Probably the fact that they can stay in India if they want. Plus there are more jobs open to them because the software companies can get them to work for less money.