Posted on 12/22/2015 8:23:35 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says IT jobs will grow 12% over the next decade, except for programmers. That occupation will shrink as more work is shifted to lower wage countries, according to the government. [...]
Software developers, the largest occupational group in IT, which employs 1.11 million, will increase by 17% or 186,600, over this period.
Programmers are focused on coding and implementing requirements, and that's why they may be more susceptible to offshoring, in contrast to software developers who may be more engaged with the business, analyzing needs and collaborating with multiple parties. In IT occupations overall, the U.S. is predicting 488,500 new jobs, from 3.9 million to 4.4 million over the next 10 years. [...]
This data may become fodder in the debate over H-1B visas. The U.S., according to the National Science Foundation, awarded about 48,000 computer science bachelor degrees in 2012, which is roughly equal to the number of jobs per year that all computer occupations will grow by. [...]
About 36% of the people who work in IT do not have four-year college degrees, and of those who do, only 38% have a computer science or math degree, according to an Economic Policy Institute paper by Hal Salzman, a Rutgers University public policy professor, Daniel Kuehn, an adjunct economics professor at American University, and B. Lindsay Lowell, the director of policy studies at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Salzman said he can't see how the demand for IT workers, outlined in the BLS data, justifies bills in Congress to increase the number of visa workers by 180,000 or more.
"The math doesn't seem to add up to support an increase at the magnitude provided in these new bills,"
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
My current contract is assigned to company in Mumbai and I’m listed as an ‘offshore’ resource.
GloBULLism just acerbates stress IMO. I'd like to see someone explain how any immigration helps the average American? How does gloBULLism help them?
“Object oriented code libraries with reusable code modules will also decrease the need for NEW code”
You must be new to the profession, possibly either straight out of college or still in college.
Too bad we canât offshore Congress.
Freepers do not let your babies grown up to be programmers.
Programmers ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold And they’d rather give you a prototype than diamonds or gold Overweight neckbeards and old faded hoodies And each night begins a new day If you don’t understand him, an’ he don’t die young He’ll prob’ly just rant away
Freepers, don’t let your babies grow up to be programmers Don’t let ‘em use keyboards or hack on some stuff Let ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such Freepers don’t let your babies grow up to be programmers Cause they’ll never get job and they’re always alone because the third world has learned how to code
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