| While the main stream media reverberates with | | | | market. |
| job losses for the American worker, the politicians | | | | A quick look at the Rozee site shows that Call |
| weigh the political benefits of being pro business | | | | Center employment in the US is an endangered |
| vs. pro labor, there is a building sense of alarm. | | | | species. As the infrastructure and telephony |
| The sucking sound of jobs leaving the US, that | | | | improves, the support, service and even the |
| Perot talked about in 92 campaign, while | | | | outbound calls will get generated from Pakistan. |
| denouncing the NAFTA is apparently being felt | | | | You can now expect to get your no interest |
| outside of the manufacturing sector. High tech | | | | credit card offers and cheap home loans from |
| jobs, the sacrosanct bastion of a knowledge | | | | telemarketers with a slight Pakistani twang in their |
| economy like the US are moving to places like | | | | accent. The jobs that American workers love to |
| India, Russia and Pakistan. While in absolute | | | | hate, such as cold calling are prized Careers in |
| numbers terms, the job losses pale in comparison | | | | Pakistan and other offshore locations. The loss of |
| to labor-intensive industries like garment | | | | such jobs, may not be such a loss after all. |
| manufacturingthe trends have been alarming. | | | | It is obvious however, that there is a heavy |
| HR Lady decided to take a look at the myths | | | | focus on Management and IT jobs on the site. |
| surrounding the issues and offer some advice on | | | | The PHP and ASP.NET developers in the US are |
| what may constitute a safe job in future for the | | | | likely to get a run for their money from Pakistani |
| American worker. HR Lady decided to focus on a | | | | developers given the job openings on Rozee. A |
| smaller, but popular offshore location, Pakistan for | | | | typical Pakistani job listing shows the trend of |
| its analysis. This is because the Indian job market | | | | using sales in the US, coupled with the raw talent |
| is heavily skewed by the likes of InfoSys, | | | | in Pakistan. A fair number of internet marketing |
| Satyam, Wipro and Tataconglomerates that hire | | | | and advertising jobs also seem to be moving to |
| tens of thousands of engineers. India has enough | | | | Pakistan ( ) . |
| domestic demand to dilute the offshore trend and | | | | Having said that, HR Lady didnt find any jobs |
| due to its growing costs has become less of a | | | | related to Plasma Physics, pushing the envelope |
| cost cutting center. Similarly Russia, with its Soviet | | | | on Silicon, bio informatics or Nanotechnology. The |
| Union roots has some incredibly talented scientific | | | | US has an undeniable advantage stillwith its |
| computing engineers but does not have the raw | | | | research universities, awesome infrastructure and |
| man power, or the proficiency in English to affect | | | | the reputation as the destination of choice for the |
| American jobs. HR Lady found Pakistan to be an | | | | brilliant. The US jobs in the cutting edge dont |
| offshore pure play, given its English speaking work | | | | seem to be threatened by the offshoring trend. |
| force and its low cost. | | | | In addition, the jobs that require physical presence |
| In order to assess the offshore trends for | | | | in the US dont seem to be threatened. Health |
| Pakistan, HR Lady looked at the top HR site in | | | | care, in-person services like teaching, real estate, |
| Pakistan, An internet jobs site, is most skewed | | | | financial services and security are very likely to be |
| towards the knowledge workers, and in a small | | | | growth careers for on-shore jobs. |
| economy like Pakistan is a proxy for the offshore | | | | |