Career Transitions - Newsletter

Human Capital Investment vs.
Offshore Outsourcing
To save American jobs, we need to rise to the competition and grow through innovation. There are no shortcuts, no silver bullets to competitiveness. But there are big steps to be taken by government and companies to enable businesses to better compete and keep jobs here in the U.S..

Encouraged by large costs savings and enabled advances in IT, Engineering and Professional expertise, corporations continue to off-shore labor intensive services such as legacy software maintenance and low level coding. Now even more so, sophisticated tasks like web applications development, XML, software design, architecture, and management are going off-shore. More so, a growing number of U.S. Corporations have moved IT and Engineering enabled business services, also known as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) abroad. Job offshoring is no longer restricted to basic service tasks such as data entry and processing, but has expanded to included sophisticated work such as knowledge services, decision analysis, design, engineering, research & development.

Although, 3 out of the top 10 fastest growing occupations are IT related, the net number of job openings in IT will remain relatively small compared to other occupations such as health services. As firms export critical business and technical knowledge, they risk losing core competencies, in-house expertise and future talent. The debate on offshoring has taken center stage, considering the current state of our economy and loss of jobs.

America is at its best when we are challenged! Over 300 years we have assembled the most entrepreneurial and competitive workforce in the world. Let's work on it right now but taking a look at those professional, knowledgeable and skilled workers we have here in the U.S.!
Take a look at our 'Hot Lists' of Candidates available for contract, contract to hire & direct hire - even more, we are offering many of their skills as consultants for 9 months with no conversion fee whatsoever!

May/2009	Issue: 6
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Human Capital Investment vs. Offshore Outsourcing To save American jobs, we need to rise to the competition and grow through innovation. There are no shortcuts, no silver bullets to competitiveness. But there are big steps to be taken by government and companies to enable businesses to better compete and keep jobs here in the U.S.. Encouraged by large costs savings and enabled advances in IT, Engineering and Professional expertise, corporations continue to off-shore labor intensive services such as legacy software maintenance and low level coding. Now even more so, sophisticated tasks like web applications development, XML, software design, architecture, and management are going off-shore. More so, a growing number of U.S. Corporations have moved IT and Engineering enabled business services, also known as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) abroad. Job offshoring is no longer restricted to basic service tasks such as data entry and processing, but has expanded to included sophisticated work such as knowledge services, decision analysis, design, engineering, research & development. Although, 3 out of the top 10 fastest growing occupations are IT related, the net number of job openings in IT will remain relatively small compared to other occupations such as health services. As firms export critical business and technical knowledge, they risk losing core competencies, in-house expertise and future talent. The debate on offshoring has taken center stage, considering the current state of our economy and loss of jobs. America is at its best when we are challenged! Over 300 years we have assembled the most entrepreneurial and competitive workforce in the world. Let's work on it right now but taking a look at those professional, knowledgeable and skilled workers we have here in the U.S.! Take a look at our 'Hot Lists' of Candidates available for contract, contract to hire & direct hire - even more, we are offering many of their skills as consultants for 9 months with no conversion fee whatsoever!	April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 In This Issue America's Stimulus: Rising to the Latest Challenge Who We Are...Contact Us Who We Are Amy Szuba Senior Contract Recruiter Angie Fitzpatrick Manager, Professional Accts Brenda Comer Office Manager Brian Hulecki Senior Search Consultant Elaine Chaffee Executive Vice President Elizabeth Muellner Director, Career Mgnt Services Jeff Tuholski General Manager Kristin Jarrin Recruiter