Firms go outside Michigan to fill IT jobs....
Such nonsense. The excuse is that there is no local talent, but what they want to do is fly in people from India, cram them in cheap apartments and pay them $8.50 an hour.
When I worked IT for Hewlett Packard I watched this happen. American workers who were doing the job just fine became no longer qualified. I have seen seminars put on by legal consultants in how to make like you are looking for Americans to fill the jobs so they can fool the government into letting them import people from India.
They cite talent shortage while some workers with tech skills can't find jobs
Thousands of high-paying IT jobs are expected to be created in Detroit over the next few years, but employers already are having trouble filling them.
Online mortgage company Quicken Loans Inc., looking to fill more than 300 information technology positions, has taken its search outside Michigan to find qualified candidates. The Detroit-based company recently launched a website aimed at recruiting laid-off Yahoo workers.
GalaxE.Solutions, a project management firm known for its "Outsource to Detroit" banner on its Woodward Avenue building, has stumbled trying to fill 500 IT jobs.
"There is a shortage nationwide of good IT talent," said Ryan Hoyle, director of global recruiting for GalaxE, which has 150 IT workers in Detroit and hopes to add 350 in the next few years. "There just aren't a lot of top students going into IT."
Computer systems analysts, network systems and data communications analysts, computer software engineers, and network and computer systems administrators are among the "Hot 50" jobs in Michigan through 2018, according to the state's Bureau of Labor Market Information & Strategic Initiatives.
Those jobs pay an average hourly wage of $31 or more.
Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp., a global market intelligence firm, predicts that 12,500 IT jobs could be created in Detroit by 2015.
At the same time, there are countless workers who have IT experience but cannot find a job in a field that often requires specific skill sets.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120514/TECHNOLOGY/205140341#ixzz1vHTNmFOJ
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