Originally posted by Shalubis
Originally posted by palmer_garnett_95
Information Technology. I guess I should reword that to "it was hard to find an entry level job". Everyone wanted you to have experience, but how can you get experience without getting a job first? I got lucky and got a job working with my old boss from college who was doing some contract work.
I live in Silicon Valley - though I'm no techie at all. But I know all sorts of techies and no one is hiring at all. Its either layoffs or freezes. Another thing, I know recruiters from HP, CIsco, and Google and they all say the same thing: for every qualified applicant they get from America they get at least 100 qualified applicants from abroad. Its tough to compete in a world market like that.
Yes it is. Especially when someone in India gets paid a fraction of what I would. However, customers appreciate someone who actually speaks English as their first language. I worked for EDS for about 4-5 months and was assigned to help with Kraft's "security"(aka gave people access to software, setup e-mail, blah blah). We had maybe 20 people there that took the initial calls as the "service desk". When employees of Kraft found out they could actually catch someone that wasn't in India, they would call the help desk and hang up if they had an Indian accent and try again. They kept doing this until they got someone from our call center. I understand, when I called to activate my credit card I had an extremely hard time trying to understand the woman. Some places are trying "rural" outsourcing. Sending the work to places in rural areas of states like Kentucky where the cost of living is lower, so instead of having to pay someone $80K you can pay them around $40K.
Originally posted by palmer_garnett_95
Information Technology. I guess I should reword that to "it was hard to find an entry level job". Everyone wanted you to have experience, but how can you get experience without getting a job first? I got lucky and got a job working with my old boss from college who was doing some contract work.
I live in Silicon Valley - though I'm no techie at all. But I know all sorts of techies and no one is hiring at all. Its either layoffs or freezes. Another thing, I know recruiters from HP, CIsco, and Google and they all say the same thing: for every qualified applicant they get from America they get at least 100 qualified applicants from abroad. Its tough to compete in a world market like that.
Yes it is. Especially when someone in India gets paid a fraction of what I would. However, customers appreciate someone who actually speaks English as their first language. I worked for EDS for about 4-5 months and was assigned to help with Kraft's "security"(aka gave people access to software, setup e-mail, blah blah). We had maybe 20 people there that took the initial calls as the "service desk". When employees of Kraft found out they could actually catch someone that wasn't in India, they would call the help desk and hang up if they had an Indian accent and try again. They kept doing this until they got someone from our call center. I understand, when I called to activate my credit card I had an extremely hard time trying to understand the woman. Some places are trying "rural" outsourcing. Sending the work to places in rural areas of states like Kentucky where the cost of living is lower, so instead of having to pay someone $80K you can pay them around $40K.
