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