[pburgh01]

I think alot of those overseas jobs in IT are coming back. I know we had a footprint in Bangalore in Mumbai of about 40 contractors whose sole job it was to maintain our legacy code and they really mucked it up. As of July we have no overseas contracted programmers, QA or PM positons. We did not get 200 per hour work, we got what we paid for 40 bucks an hour. It took 5 Indians what 1 American could do. Nice folks over there, but they need to hand held through everything, 0 initiative and self starter instincts in them. We had one guy who came over to America, got a work VISA, became their boss and we retained him. He is now applying to become a citizen and he had become Americanized.

[Dianna]

I'm working (temp) as an on-site admin for the off-site recruiter. Because I'm on-site, I attend the wrap-up meetings to discuss the candidate. I often hear, "We need someone who can hit the ground running." They don't want to train anyone, they think they don't have the time, so they insist upon someone with a very narrow experience range. And they rarely find it.

It isn't good enough to have sales/marketing experience in a similar field; they want someone who knows their products, has contacts in that industry.

The good news is the longer they take to fill these reqs, the longer I have a job.