| Faced
with the prospect of job cuts due to work being outsourced to low-cost
economies, skilled foreign workers from the U.S. and U.K. have been doing
the next best thing—finding employment in India. If you can’t
beat them join them. The number of foreigners working in India
in the software and outsourcing in-dustries is mounting at a rapid pace,
surpassing 50,000 at the last count by registrar’s office in New Delhi.
“Many foreign
nationals are looking at mid-level and senior level positions in India.
Every week, we get at least one well qualified foreigner looking for a
job here,” says Kris Lakshmikanth, founder CEO and managing director of
the executive recruiting firm Head Hunters (India). “As IT product
firms set up shop in India, experienced professionals from the U.S. are
also on the lookout for jobs here and the trend is being witnessed by the
top-tier recruitment firms.”
“Earlier,
only call-center jobs were being outsourced to India,” says Anil Mahajan,
executive director of Talent Hunt Private Ltd. “But now as companies start
to ship high-end research and senior managerial jobs too to India, foreign
workers see a huge opportunity for themselves here." |
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“Till
recently, we were getting regular job queries from expatriate Indians who
wanted to move back to India. But we were also taken by surprise
when overseas professionals from countries as far as the U.S., Britain,
and South Africa also started to call us up to inquire about job opportunities
here. This has now become a trend,” says Mahajan.
Estimates suggest
that 200,000 to 400,000 jobs have moved from the U.S. since the outsourcing
trend began in the 1990s, which is still a fraction of the some 138 million
jobs in the U.S. The Information Technology Association of America
(ITAA)
says only around 2 percent of the 10 million computer-related jobs have
been sent abroad; 12 percent of IT companies have outsourced work, compared
to 3 percent of non-IT firms.
The highest
projection for outsourcing is by Forrester Research: a loss of 3.3 million
U.S. jobs by 2015, including 1.7 million back-office jobs and 473,000 IT
jobs, which will create a dent in the U.S. job market but not the wreck
everyone fears.
Foreigners
are coming on their own to India for the opportunities on offer
and because it is an attractive destination. |
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indication of the global reach of Indian IT giants can be gauged from the
fact that Infosys Technologies, which has risen to become the country’s
second-largest software maker mainly due to outsourced work from the West,
has reversed the trend by investing $20 million to create nearly 500 con-sulting
jobs in the U.S. Infosys Consulting is “aggressively hiring in
America,” Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani said in a statement. “As
we are looking to expand our global footprint, we are creating local em-ployment
in the countries where we operate,” he said.
Resources
for Finding Work in India
Consult sites
such as www.naukri.com, www.monsterindia.com,
www.timesjobs.com.
It is best to register in these recruitment websites, as employers and
headhunters keep a constant watch. Prominent newspapers such as Hindu,
Indian Express, and Hindustan Times bring out job opportunity broadsheets
every week that are posted online. It is sometimes worthwhile
visiting the websites of prominent companies. |
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