The Impact of Outsourcing and Offshoring on US Government IT Jobs!

If you were to go out to the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site and look at the prospect for IT Jobs the picture would be very rosy indeed! Better than average job growth in just about any IT job category you pick, from Database Admins to Web developers. Yes, the US government thinks things are looking pretty good in the world of IT Jobs. I, on the other hand, am not too sure. I don’t claim to know what methodology they used to come up with their outlook projections (but I am in the process of finding out), but I’m not sure they have taken some of the latest trends into consideration. Most large IT organizations have been automating their environments for years in order to increase the server to people ratio. This applies to most aspects of IT, from System Architects to Server Admins to DBA’s etc. etc.. Offshoring has been another major trend over the last decade that has impacted IT Jobs in the US. It started out with Service Desk functions and has expanded to just about every IT role imaginable.

Now, not all is gloomy though, the thing about IT jobs is that new ones are cropping up all the time as newer technologies such as Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Software as a Service gain traction in the commercial world. But for every IT role that is lost due to automation, outsourcing, offshoring and just plain old obsolescence, how many new ones are created in the US and other developed countries? My contention is that it will be the developing countries that see the lion’s share of growth in IT Jobs.

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IT Jobs, Outsourcing and Offshoring, is it time to get out?

This website is primarily written for ex IT Professionals or current IT Professionals looking to get out from under the corporate umbrella. As more and more developing countries increase their technological infrastructure and technical knowledge, IT jobs will outsourced and offshored from countries where labor costs are high to these emerging tech markets with much lower labor costs. This is a simple fact of life in a capitalistic world. Capital (i.e. jobs, money and other resources) will take the path of least resistance (higher profit). Protectionism will not work because in a global economy, the capital markets will punish any acts of protectionism by shifting even more resources away from the culprits.

The US and other governments whose populations are being impacted by this phenomena have done an extremely poor job of addressing this at the micro level, you know, the level where you and I live. Over time all of these shifts should reach an equilibrium point and stabilize as populations in developing countries see increasing levels of income, thus slowing the whole process down. In the meantime are you going to sit idly by? This site is all about looking at your options. As an current or ex IT professional you have a skill set that you can use in the field of Internet Marketing. My posts and my pages on this site will look at the various options and opportunities that Internet Marketing presents to people with the right skill sets and the ability to RTFM!

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IT Jobs, Outsourcing and Offshoring, is it time to get out?

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