1. The Outsourcing Trends
2. How to Fit in
In general, outsourcing is not really scary. All about outsourcing is to shift some of IT functions from in-house to external IT service providers. Your strategy to deal with outsourcing is to make yourself fit in the trend. There is another kind of outsourcing – offshore outsourcing, that could cause real threat to us. We’ll talk about offshore outsourcing in the next chapter. (more…)
1. The Offshore Trend
2. What Makes Offshoring Possible
3. Offshore Impact to Homeland Techies
4. How to Beat Offshore Trend
US-based companies are sending more and more tech jobs to overseas. Hiring overseas technical talent to do the job is so called offshoring. In recent years, rush to offshore outsourcing has become a significantly growing trend in IT industry – significant enough to draw us to pay serious attentions. (more…)
1. How to Avoid Layoff
2. Preparing for the Worst
3. How to Survive from Layoff
In IT industry, layoff is inevitable. Most likely, layoff has nothing to do with employee’s job performance but often caused by uncontrollable external situations. In such a highly competitive environment, companies were sometimes forced to reduce workforce due to economic conditions and business operation problems. Layoff is often a result of company reorg, merger and accusations, and so forth. (more…)
State government IT jobs pay lower than private sectors. Using the state of California as example, in Sacramento, the state capital, the top limit salary is about $76,000 per year for senior IT workers, — Senior Information Systems Analysts (DBAs, system administrators, software architects, etc) and Senior Programmer Analysts. In the same city IT workers with matching experience and skill levels should make $80,000 – $100,000. (more…)