Certification Magazine:
The outsourcing question for many IT workers is simply whether their jobs will stay in the U.S. or be sent overseas. This article takes a hard look at the employment future of IT workers in the global age. The good news is that outsourcing will not be the end of the American IT worker ? far from it.
Global outsourcing could very well create new jobs for U.S. workers. The trick is that they will be higher-end tech jobs, so clearly the way to stay employed is to maintain a high level of education and training in the areas that are most likely to be kept onshore, such as security. There will also be great IT opportunities in non-IT fields, such as the geospatial and health-care industries. One key problem in this glass-half-full scenario is that while higher-end IT workers should do fine, there’s no way for entry-level IT workers to gain the experience necessary to move up, since all the traditional entry-level jobs are skipping off across the ocean. A few unique programs are being set up to help fix this problem. One is the National IT Apprenticeship System (NITAS), which was created through a partnership of CompTIA and the Department of Labor.
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