"Globalization-resistant careers

By Marty Nemko

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | US's News's March 27 cover story, Can America Keep Up,? warns us that many Americans are fiddling while Rome is burning: "Nicholas Donofrio, IBM's No. 2 executive, told a gathering of colleagues and clients earlier this month. 'We have no right to the standard of living we have. It can disappear as fast as it came." Roy Singham, CEO of Thoughtworks, an international software consultancy added, "When you're in college drinking beer and watching the Super Bowl, your counterpart in China is on his fourth book."
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U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes By TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writers
Thu Mar 23, 6:02 PM ET



In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
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"Dell to add 10,000 workers in India
Paul McDougall , InformationWeek, 22-Mar-2006

Dell could double its current Indian workforce of 10,000 over the next three years.

Dell Computer and consulting firm Capgemini have become the latest tech powerhouses to publicly acknowledge plans to significantly increase headcount in India in order to tap the country's highly skilled, but relatively lowly paid, IT and business services workforce.
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We get emails like this all the time in our inbox:

Respected Sirs,

We are an young IT startup in India, backed with strong certified and experienced professionals. We need suggestions and technical know how on how we can undertake and successfully complete offshore projects in scheduled manner.

expecting your kind support

regards
S...J...
Chief executive

How many business rules does this break?

1. Know your market. Obviously they don't know we aren't exactly supportive of offshoring to India.
2. Don't spam.
3. Don't assume your clients are men. It's insulting in the Modern Age.
4. Don't ask for "suggestions and technical know how" unless you are willing to pay for it. Free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.
5. Don't use bad grammar or misspellings. Unless you are ee Cummings, never begin a sentence in lowercase.

This is a company Corporate America would do business with?

From Prof. Norm Matloff's Newsletter.
Prof. Matloff writes:

As many readers of this e-newsletter know, my analysis of the offshoring issue is that offshoring becomes really big, the effect will mainly that we lose jobs requiring higher levels of education while gaining jobs which require lesser levels of education.

" Outsourcing Work Looms Large In U.S.-India Ties

by: John D. McKinnon & Peter Wonacott

New Delhi - President Bush wrapped up his three-day trip to India, celebrating an improving relationship with the country. But the issue of outsourcing was never far from the surface.
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"February 22, 2006
From the Desk of David Pogue
How to Survive a Tech Support Call

OK, we all know that the tech-support problem is out of control these days. But just for fun, reader John Stumpf, ex-CIO and now just a "retired geek," wrote up a Guide to Dell Tech Support that's so clever/funny/smart, I had to pass it on. Please welcome substitute columnist John Stumpf.
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"GOP Governors Question Port Turnover By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

Two Republican governors on Monday questioned a Bush administration decision allowing an Arab-owned company to operate six major U. S. ports, saying they may try to cancel lease arrangements at ports in their states.
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"The Economic Times Online
Printed from economictimes.indiatimes.com > News By Industry > Infotech> ITeS
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Shame, shame! Call centres in India

IANS[ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006 12:04:48 AM]
NRIs Rang De Basanti FREE DVD
LONDON: Is it possible for British Rail's call centre operator based in India not to be aware of Scotland or the difference between a 'slipper' and a 'sleeper'?
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"Yahoo! News
Indian software exports seen growing 32 percent in 05/06: report

Thu Feb 9, 6:53 AM ET

Indian software and service export revenues are seen surging by 32 percent in the current financial year as global companies increase outsourcing, an industry group forecast.
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"(This article shows what’s wrong with American CEO's. They complain about Americans not majoring in engineering while they are busy offshoring our jobs or importing H-1bs to take our jobs away from us. Then these CEO's wonder why Americans won't major in science and engineering.

The CEOs are the problem. If you want more American engineers then pay us more and make sure we can have some job security. That is how the free market works but American CEOs don't believe in the free market. They only believe in what can raise their quarterly bottom line. If that means offshoring American jobs or replacing Americans with H-1b workers or as far as I'm concerned, pimping their own children, then they will do it. American parents and their children get it. They know that majoring in science and engineering is a quick road to unemployment. I was once a software engineer before I was replaced by an H-1b. No American software engineer that I know, and I know many, would encourage their children to major in engineering. - jgm)

CEOs Fret Over America's Workforce
Jessica Holzer, 02.09.06, 6:00 AM ET
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"GM to raise India workforce by 30%Add to Clippings
Byas Anand


NEW DELHI: America's loss is turning out to be India's gain. Within days of announcing 30,000 job-cuts in the US, automobile giant General Motors Corp will this week unveil plans to increase its workforce in India by nearly 30%.
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Dell opens fourth Indian call center, plans plant

By Shailendra Bhatnagar 58 minutes ago

Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the world's largest computer maker, said on Monday it will set up its fourth call center in India and scout for land for a planned manufacturing plant in Asia's third-largest economy.
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"1/23/06

Coming and Going As offshoring evolves, Indian firms even hire Americans

By Richard J. Newman
US News and World Report

It doesn't take an economics degree to conclude that one of the main U.S. exports of the 21st century is likely to be jobs. And by many accounts, India is at the head of the receiving line. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates recently announced that the software giant will nearly double its workforce in India, to 7,000, and invest $1.7 billion there. IBM has added at least 10,000 Indian workers this year and could employ more than 50,000 Indians by the end of 2006. Accenture, EDS, and other consulting firms are following close behind. By 2015, 3.3 million jobs will have been sent overseas, accord-ing to Forrester Research. As the offshoring trend matures, U.S. firms will contract out increasing amounts of white-collar work like accounting, drug research, technical R&D, and even cartoon animation.
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"American corporate inefficiency – boom for India’s outsourcing sector - TCS to hire 8,000, wins $40 mn US deal

Babu Ghanta
Jan. 12, 2006

American corporate inefficiencies need massive shift of jobs to india to save money. When one cannot increase revenue and have bad management, the choices are limited to opt for lower quality serices from India for almost no money!

This provides boom for Indian outsourcing sectors.

According to media reports, Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software services exporter, said on Thursday, it would add a gross 8,000 employees in the three months to March 2006. It has won a $40-million multi-year deal from a US consumer goods firm in its fiscal third-quarter to end-December.

The company said 3,500 employees would be directly recruited, while the remaining would come through acquisitions.

Shares in TCS, which reported a 3.5 per cent rise in quarterly earnings to Rs 7.32 billion, rose 0.6 per cent to Rs 1,681 in a weak Mumbai market. "

"EE Times:
PMC-Sierra opens Indian development center

K.C. Krishnadas
(01/11/2006 12:52 PM EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175803574

BANGALORE, India — PMC-Sierra has opened its development center in India, expected to house staff working on WiMax and storage technologies.

Staffing will be increased to 300 in the next couple of years, according to Robert Bailey, chief executive of PMC-Sierra Inc. He said the company does not expect problems getting the kind of talent it needs since it will offer engineering staff the opportunity for cutting-edge work.

PMC-Sierra (Santa Clara, Calif.) already has existing development contracts with Wipro Technologies and HCL Technologies, both of which run dedicated offshore development centers for PMC-Sierra. The company employs 75 engineers here now, and expects to employ 250 engineers soon, according to Arun Bellary, managing director of PMC-Sierra’s Indian operations.

The company said it would establish sales and support operations here to serve its Indian and overseas customers. "

"A vanishing American dream
Sunday, January 1, 2006

By HOLLY SKLAR

THE AMERICAN DREAM doesn't need to go on a diet in the new year. It's been shrinking for years.
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"As bank jobs go abroad, are records at risk?

As more US banking jobs move overseas, concerns rise about fraud and stolen records of personal accounts.

By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

ATLANTA - First, US textile jobs were shipped to the Orient, then customer service call centers for American companies cropped up in Manila. Now the back office of the corner bank is being hauled to Bombay and Bangladore, India.
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"Brain regain
Surging economy lures India's tech workers home

Sanjay Swamy, his son, Ashwin, 8, and wife, Tulsi, moved to a villa in the Palm Meadows community when they returned to Bangalore, India. Such communities offer buffers from the city's bumper-to-bumper traffic and swarming neighborhoods.

By Saritha Rai, The New York Times
January 2, 2006

BANGALORE, India - Standing amid the rolling lawns outside his four-bedroom villa, Ajay Kela pondered his street in the community of Palm Meadows. One of his neighbors recently returned to India from Cupertino, Calif., to run a technology startup funded by the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
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"(Here is another Senator who willing to betray American workers. So much for the theory that only Republicans are in favor of offshoring. Of course this Senator is only following the Democratic line as promoted by Howard Dean. (See http://www.itpaa.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1938) As I have said before this issue cuts accross party lines. The Washington establishment doesn't give a damn about American workers. - jgm)

Pakistan is out, India is in: US Senator

December 30, 2005 22:55 IST

The United States' ties with Pakistan have "cooled off" considerably over the years and Washington considers India as a "future ally" in the region, a US Senator said in New Delhi on Friday.
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" Gunman attack unnerves Bangalore outsourcing industry

One person was killed, four injured and Bangalore police cannot confirm whether attack was by terrorists

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
December 29, 2005


An attack by a gunman late Wednesday at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India has sent shockwaves through the city's large outsourcing industry.
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"Business Week Online

DECEMBER 27, 2005

NEWS ANALYSIS
By Pete Engardio

Engineering: Is the U.S. Really Falling?

Numbers cited to prove that graduation rates in India and China dwarf those in the U.S. may be flawed. But the fear is all too real

Is America losing its competitive edge in engineering? Top Silicon Valley executives, U.S. think-tanks, industry associations, and university deans have all pointed out dropping enrollment in American science and tech programs and warn of a brewing problem. And in a November survey of 4,000 U.S. engineers, 64% said outsourcing makes them worry about the profession's future, while less than 10% feel sure America will maintain its leadership in technology.
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"China recruiting U.S. IT grads

Special to World Tribune.com
EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
Friday, December 23, 2005

China's rapid economic expansion has allowed Beijing to fund a recruitment drive targeting some of the best and brightest IT graduates from U.S. universities, according to Chinese sources.

In turn, this brain trust is being used by China both as a control on its own Internet revolution and as a potential resource for North Korea' cyberwar program.
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"IBM Daksh opens three outsourcing centres
Regional Bureau, Pune,
December 13, 2005

IBM Daksh today announced the launch of three new outsourcing delivery centres - one each in Pune, Chandigarh and Kolkata - with a total capacity of 2,100 seats. (Read More)
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"Microsoft to invest $1.7 billion, add 3,000 jobs in India, Gates says

By Rajesh Mahapatra

The Associated Press

NEW DELHI – Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1.7 billion in India and add 3,000 jobs in the country over the next four years, nearly doubling the world's largest software company's work force here, Chairman Bill Gates said today.
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"U.S. Jobs in IT Development & Finance Soley Reserved for India

Diane M. Grassi

General Motors Corp. announced in late November 2005 that it will close 9 of its United States auto manufacturing plants as well as three assembly-related plants which includes one location in Canada. Ford Motor Co. followed suit in early December 2005 announcing it is considering the shutdown of up to 8 of its U.S. manufacturing plants, including engine and assembly operations, with one in Mexico. Americans are well familiar with the downsizing, outsourcing and offshoring of the U.S. manufacturing base which has seen 2/3 of its jobs lost in the past 20 years, having been traded in for third world cheap labor. And while white-collar workers have hardly been immune from offshoring practices infiltrating boardrooms, indication this week is that the tide has changed. (Read More)
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"Microsoft plans 30 new innovation centres globally

NEW DELHI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it would set up 30 new innovation centres around the world, adding to its existing 60, in partnership with local governments, academic institutions and industry organisations. (Read More)
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"America the loser?
China trade affects U.S. jobs

By Cliff Peale
Enquirer staff writer

BEIJING - In the global trading world, there are winners and there are losers.

To critics of trade with the People's Republic of China, the losers are American workers. (Read More)
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"The Problem of Virtual Immigration

Paul Craig Roberts
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005

One must marvel at the campaign that a handful of neoconservatives were able to create around Sept. 11. They were able to commit vast resources to a war based on falsified intelligence and set aside in the interest of executive power the essential civil liberties that define America as a nation. A fabricated threat was all that was needed in order to deep-six habeas corpus, due process, warrants and privacy, shatter America's reputation, especially among Muslims, and place the United States several hundred billions of dollars deeper in the hands of its Asian bankers. (Read More)
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"The World Is Tilted
The popular idea that America is one step smarter and more sophisticated than its rivals is a dangerous myth, and a threat to the global economy.


By Clyde Prestowitz
Newsweek

Issues 2006 - For most of the last 50 years, globalization has been a win-win proposition, making America richer while lifting hundreds of millions in the developing world out of poverty and despair. Recently, however, it has begun to operate differently, undermining U.S. welfare while creating imbalances likely to end in a global economic crisis (Read More).
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