“IT Project management appears to be doing well here in NC as well.”
Its only a matter of time. As more of the work is being done offshore the project management will naturally follow. Its already happening in the banking industry.
They try. We have Indians working on our current project (a political decision made by someone much higher than me.) They tried to sell themselves to high level management as project management and scheduling geniuses who could take over what I was doing and make it better. However, just because they passed the PMP doesn't mean they have the dynamics and the ability to deal with people to be great project managers.
Banking is a global business anyway. Most other project mgmt will stay local at many levels. The company I work for has hired 4 project mgrs in the last 2 years and is hiring 2 more this year in IT. They’ve added 3 construction project mgrs as well.