OT: Tech Jobs are everywhere

[BKinLA]

Sure, there’s plenty of need for technology “workers”. Just don’t expect them to be filled by U.S. Citizens. Offshoring and outsourcing are here to stay.

The latest volley on the H1-B battlefront:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/mar2008/db20080330_182808.htm

Notice how they talked up MicroSoft’s contribution to the Seattle job market, but fail to mention that MS is opening a new facility just over the border in Vancouver. Why? Because Canada doesn’t limit the number of foreign workers the way the U.S. does.

Wonder what the long term impact of this will be on the Seattle housing market, especially if this becomes a new trend?

There isn’t a shortage of qualified U.S. workers, only a shortage of ones that can afford to pay off their college loans (and feed their families) on a third-word salary.

Brad

[HarryBosch]

Storage.

I work in the tech industry and I get weekly calls from headhunters looking for people with storage skills and background.

If you know anything about direct-attached or SAN storage, zoning, etc. then you could easily get a job.

I’d also recommend that if you don’t want to risk your job getting off-shored then you should go into sales, pre-sales, etc. Presentations and demonstrations are best done at customer sites. Weekly face-to-face meetings with customers cannot easily or routinely be done month after month from overseas. Customers like seeing the same face week after week – especially from large corporations.

You can’t press the flesh through a telephone.

[HarryBosch]

Storage.

I work in the tech industry and I get weekly calls from headhunters looking for people with storage skills and background.

If you know anything about direct-attached or SAN storage, zoning, etc. then you could easily get a job.

I’d also recommend that if you don’t want to risk your job getting off-shored then you should go into sales, pre-sales, etc. Presentations and demonstrations are best done at customer sites. Weekly face-to-face meetings with customers cannot easily or routinely be done month after month from overseas. Customers like seeing the same face week after week – especially from large corporations.

You can’t press the flesh through a telephone.

[HarryBosch]

Storage.

I work in the tech industry and I get weekly calls from headhunters looking for people with storage skills and background.

If you know anything about direct-attached or SAN storage, zoning, etc. then you could easily get a job.

I’d also recommend that if you don’t want to risk your job getting off-shored then you should go into sales, pre-sales, etc. Presentations and demonstrations are best done at customer sites. Weekly face-to-face meetings with customers cannot easily or routinely be done month after month from overseas. Customers like seeing the same face week after week – especially from large corporations.

You can’t press the flesh through a telephone.

[HarryBosch]

Storage.

I work in the tech industry and I get weekly calls from headhunters looking for people with storage skills and background.

If you know anything about direct-attached or SAN storage, zoning, etc. then you could easily get a job.

I’d also recommend that if you don’t want to risk your job getting off-shored then you should go into sales, pre-sales, etc. Presentations and demonstrations are best done at customer sites. Weekly face-to-face meetings with customers cannot easily or routinely be done month after month from overseas. Customers like seeing the same face week after week – especially from large corporations.

You can’t press the flesh through a telephone.

[HarryBosch]

Storage.

I work in the tech industry and I get weekly calls from headhunters looking for people with storage skills and background.

If you know anything about direct-attached or SAN storage, zoning, etc. then you could easily get a job.

I’d also recommend that if you don’t want to risk your job getting off-shored then you should go into sales, pre-sales, etc. Presentations and demonstrations are best done at customer sites. Weekly face-to-face meetings with customers cannot easily or routinely be done month after month from overseas. Customers like seeing the same face week after week – especially from large corporations.

You can’t press the flesh through a telephone.

[HarryBosch]

And for any of you techies out there there’s a new technology just coming out – I think still in v1.0 phase – called Fibre Channel over Ethernet a.k.a. Convergent Network Adapter (CNA). I’m not a storage person myself but customers are just now starting to ask about CNA for their data centers.

[HarryBosch]

And for any of you techies out there there’s a new technology just coming out – I think still in v1.0 phase – called Fibre Channel over Ethernet a.k.a. Convergent Network Adapter (CNA). I’m not a storage person myself but customers are just now starting to ask about CNA for their data centers.

[HarryBosch]

And for any of you techies out there there’s a new technology just coming out – I think still in v1.0 phase – called Fibre Channel over Ethernet a.k.a. Convergent Network Adapter (CNA). I’m not a storage person myself but customers are just now starting to ask about CNA for their data centers.

[HarryBosch]

And for any of you techies out there there’s a new technology just coming out – I think still in v1.0 phase – called Fibre Channel over Ethernet a.k.a. Convergent Network Adapter (CNA). I’m not a storage person myself but customers are just now starting to ask about CNA for their data centers.

[HarryBosch]

And for any of you techies out there there’s a new technology just coming out – I think still in v1.0 phase – called Fibre Channel over Ethernet a.k.a. Convergent Network Adapter (CNA). I’m not a storage person myself but customers are just now starting to ask about CNA for their data centers.

[paramount]

I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.

[paramount]

I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.

[paramount]

I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.

[paramount]

I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.

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