Posted on 10/25/2009 10:36:25 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
Until several years ago, I was fortunate to have several people working for me who were talented, intelligent, creative and energetic. They also appreciated the limits of their knowledge and strived constantly to maintain and improve their skills. What they didn’t know about the core business we worked in they learned. They were all American citizens by choice, not by accident of birth. Most importantly, they were not the product of the American education system. In other words, they did not suffer from inflated estimates of their importance, intelligence or self-esteem.
Unfortunately, most college graduates today are unsuitable for productive employment yet expect exorbitant salaries. Many that I have interviewed have extraordinarily deep but exceedingly narrow knowledge. One thing no employer wants to do is waste time training an employee who requires perpetual training because they don’t assume the responsibility to expand their knowledge beyond what they know. Many of these graduates expect to be paid just to keep their limited skill sets up to date. They are essentially students in perpetuity without the ability to reason or desire to improve of their own accord. There are of course exceptions, but far too few to be of any consequence.
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I would dispute a lot of this. Indian students are no great shakes—typically Americans run rings around them. Also, today most kids know how tough it is out there. They have adapted their expectations accordingly. There are also lots of problems with outsourcing software development to a foreign country. Anyone who assumes it will be easy is very naive.
One more thing, PC is not a problem in the software field. This is because very few minorities (non-Asian anyway) have CS degrees.
I was just outsourced, so I speak from personal experience. My company picked me 2.5 years ago because of direct industry experience (Electricity trading and Power Scheduling). 3 months ago they brought in an Indian company and staff to “Learn the business” and eventually take over. (Oct. 31 the ball is theirs) What they failed to understand is that lost time on the trade floor means a loss of millions of dollars. Lost time from a lack of knowledge (how much can you teach from Zero to ??? in three months, not much!) and lack of many social skills that we take for granted. Many of these folks are insulting, rude, hard to understand, lack any loyalty to the company, follow the letter of the contract (don’t have to respond for 24 hours so they DON’T), and other things that were not good for the company.
Outsourcing hasn’t ever given you the real bang for the buck.
No Loyalty - They work for someone else don’t forget it!
No Skillsets - Basics mean more than you think!
No Savings - Yeah, they are cheap, but not even worth that little bit!
Upper managers do this to pretend they will save money, and get a big bonus. The people that have to do it, they lose productive people and those that are left feel like they could be next and have less faith in the company and leave as soon as the opportunity comes. Usually your best folks first!
Good luck folks, I got a job with the competition! Haha, I laugh last, and feel bad for those left behind.
Unfortunately, most college graduates today are unsuitable for productive employment yet expect exorbitant salaries.
That’s because most college students are not suitable for a college education and most colleges are unsuitable to give one.
Sounds like the experience of a friend of mine. They came in and told him they were replacing him because he was a stupid lazy American.
The first cycle of billing for the electric company was short millions of $.
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