Job openings at US tech companies skyrocket- Microsoft:3200, IBM: 1200, Intel: 1000, Cisco: 650

Various websites, monster.com ^ | Feb 19, 2005 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Over 25000 jobs are open at various US high tech companies. While a lot of companies have outsourced, a cursory look at a lot of open jobs indicates most are high paying...

[MarkL]

The company I work for is having trouble finding qualified break/fix CEs (Customer "Engineers," the PC tecnicians who work on regular PCs, as opposed to doing server and network stuff), just to do maintanance for our clients. Right now, we've only got 2 dispatchable CEs, so I wind upo doing alot of warranty work on PCs! In fact, right now I'm finishing up a project to replace the hard drives in 320 PCs!

The target revenues for this year are $1,000,000,000 (No, I'm not kidding... That's One Billion Dollars!)

Mark

[sarah_f]

http://washtech.org/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4855

January 31, 2005
WashTech News


26,889 More Jobs Offshored
A total of 46 new companies have been added to the Offshore Tracker this month, resulting in 26,889 jobs moved offshore and 11,787 U.S. jobs lost. The leading culprits are IBM, adding more than 3,000 positions to its offshore locations, bringing its total to 15,000; and Delphi with 6,800 engineers in India, China, Mexico and Poland - 40% of its engineering department. American Express eliminated 2,000 U.S. jobs and intends to offshore at least 400 of the lost positions.

Over the past year customer complaints to Dell prompted the company to move some of its call center positions from its offshore Indian location. However, the jobs are not returning to U.S. soil. Instead the company has shifted focus to Canada. This month the company hired 750 employees to staff its new call center in Edmonton. In addition Dell is opening customer service offices in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

“Nearshoring” is not a new concept to companies like Dell, however tax credits and loans offered by nearshore destinations make it popular for more than just language proficiency and travel costs. Canada is offering large tax credits and loans to companies that set up research and development or design centers within its borders. As reported in the San Jose Business Journal, the federal and provincial governments in Canada work together to offer a credit of up to 57% against labor costs in R&D. In addition to an R&D tax credit, the Canadian government also offers loans of up to $5 million to cover the cost of developing a new product using Canadian workers.

Get the Facts at our Offshore Tracker (http://www.techsunite.org/offshore)

[sarah_f]

http://www.techsunite.org/offshore

[Always Right]

Re: Janitorial Jobs I don't know about most companies, but ours outsources the janitorial work.

'IBM adversing nationally fot 3200 Janitrial jobs? Think there might nave been a little sarcasm there?

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Hmmm. I think i may have missed something. i was being silly too.

[Always Right]

yeah i know. should have dircted that comment to nwrep.

[BlackbirdSST]

The company I work for is having trouble finding qualified break/fix CEs (Customer "Engineers," the PC tecnicians who work on regular PCs, as opposed to doing server and network stuff), just to do maintanance for our clients. Right now, we've only got 2 dispatchable CEs, so I wind upo doing alot of warranty work on PCs! In fact, right now I'm finishing up a project to replace the hard drives in 320 PCs! The target revenues for this year are $1,000,000,000 (No, I'm not kidding... That's One Billion Dollars!) Mark

Your about page doesn't tell us where you are. Care to clue me in? Blackbird.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, these are jobs that Americans will take! :^D

[varon]

Looks like this year will be easier to request a larger raise. `;^)

Stop that right now! It's that kind of selfish thinking that causes inflation ;-)

[MarkL]

The company I work for is having trouble finding qualified break/fix CEs (Customer "Engineers," the PC tecnicians who work on regular PCs, as opposed to doing server and network stuff), just to do maintanance for our clients. Right now, we've only got 2 dispatchable CEs, so I wind upo doing alot of warranty work on PCs! In fact, right now I'm finishing up a project to replace the hard drives in 320 PCs! The target revenues for this year are $1,000,000,000 (No, I'm not kidding... That's One Billion Dollars!) Mark

Your about page doesn't tell us where you are. Care to clue me in? Blackbird.

Sorry, the company I work for is Pomeroy IT Solutions, and the branch is in Independence, MO. It's on the eastern border of Kansas City, MO.

Mark

[OldFriend]

I'm stuck here in New Joisey.....but my daughter and her hubby are loving life in Denver.

They live in the city and commute to the suburbs where the tech center was built.

Traffic is hell!!!

[adam_az]

"I wonder how many of these jobs will be taken by American's and how many will be taken by foreigners with the H-1B guest worker visa's."

I know a very talented Canadian programmer who is here on an H1B. His employer is damn lucky to have him - all their other good engineers have left. He can't, because he's on an H1B, so he'd have to find another new sponsor, too.

Sad because he's the kind of person we WANT coming here - if anyone should get legal residency standing it should be a guy like him, not an illegal alien fruit-picker.

[adam_az]

" The leading culprits are IBM, adding more than 3,000 positions to its offshore locations"

This is idiotic - most of those people are in overseas locations..... to serve OVERSEAS CUSOMERS.

[HarryDunne]

I'm a VB6 developer. I learned VB.NET last summer and it is awesome. My fellow developers have enjoyed working with .NET, especially ASP.NET. So many components are built-in, the interface is easier to use, and server-interaction (whether database or Web Services related) is excellent. That being said, the .NET Framework is so huge, it may be intimidating at first glance. But my opinion is that it is worth learning.

[SandRat]

and the media, the leftists, the Nedows and his ilk, the Margret Madelane O'Hare's, Wart Churchill's, Hollyweird, Jane Fondue, Ted Turner, Ed Asner, Phil Donahue, Larry Flynt,......

[Centurion2000]

I'm in network security and one place that has consistently had a boom for the last 2 years ... London England of all places. They are DESPERATE for networking guys.

[sarah_f]

Ah, the willfully ignorant FReeper. When presented with facts, a source, an organization, and links - can only say "this is stupid" and provide no supporting evidence.

[Non-Sequitur]

This is idiotic - most of those people are in overseas locations..... to serve OVERSEAS CUSOMERS.

Hardly. I spent last year contracting to a company who had outsourced about 75 pecent of their IT functions to IBM. Every single developer was from IBM India, supporting a client in the U.S. Last month I picked up another contract with another company who is also doing an oursourcing project for a U.S. company. All development resources, and a small percentage of the project administration resources, come from the company's India subsidiary. All those jobs overthere are to support US clients.

[SandRat]

I created it and placed it on my web server. You're welcome to save it to you hard drive. That's how I got the Rat. Once you have it saved to a disk send it to a print shop or they make bumper stickers pages for your own printer now too, print your own.

If you put it on your car though be sure to increase your auto insurance, especially the glass coverage.

DEMOC

and only the RAT at full size.

[Non-Sequitur]

dice.com shows over 65,000 jobs nationwide, well above the 45,000 or so of just few months ago.

Take it from someone who's followed Dice for some time. Most jobs on Dice are contract or contract for hire. And it's not uncommon for four or five contracting companies to post ads trying to fill the same position. Don't get me wrong, the job market is improving quite a bit but it's a long way from what it was.