Thursday

Offshoring obsessions miss the point

COMMENTARY--"No, you can't outsource your homework to India!" the gruff father in the cartoon pinned to our lunchroom board tells his son. Jeez, now that even the cartoonists have picked up on offshoring, it must be a hot trend.


Workers aren't owners of outsourced jobs

Workers aren't owners of outsourced jobs

Recently we've been hearing a lot about what has come to be called "job outsourcing." That is, Corporation X will send some or most of its jobs overseas. While this certainly isn't something to necessarily cheer about, I think a major point needs to be addressed which has been overlooked.


Resources


Fortune Magazine's Career Advice by Anne Fisher
www.fortune.com/fortune/careers
Jobs, Careers, and Job Search Resource Center
www.job-hunt.org/
Comprehensive internet job search engine
www.monster.com
USAJOBS main page
www.usajobs.opm.gov/
Career-related info from The Wall Street Journal
www.careerjournal.com/
Helping Families Deal With Job Loss
www.familycorner.net/
Search tech jobs, post resumes and find job fairs
www.brassring.com/
Premier job search engine
hotjobs.yahoo.com/
Independent Contractors bidding on projects
www.ubidcontract.com/
Fed Jobs Career Center
www.fedjobs.com/
Complete listing of thousands of currently available jobs
www.1-allusjobs.com/
Technology job board
www.dice.com/
Search hundreds of thousands of jobs
www.careerbuilder.com/
Computer Jobs and Technical Employment
www.computerwork.com
America's Job Bank - job search engine
www.ajb.dni.us/
CareerOneStop - job portal
www.CareerOneStop.org/
Go To Top
Counselors:
Professional Counselors Database
www.allaboutcounseling.com/Counselors/searchscreen.cfm
Los Angeles psychotherapists and psychologists
www.therapyinla.com/
Find the right psychologist, therapist, or counselor
www.4therapy.com/consumer/
Internet Mental Health
www.mentalhealth.com
Depression Central
www.psycom.net/depression.central.html
Online Medical Support Groups
www.supportpath.com
Northwest Mental Health Associates
www.nmha.com
NIH Anxiety Disorders
health.nih.gov/result.asp?disease_id=48
NIH Depression
health.nih.gov/result.asp?disease_id=183
National Institute of Mental Health
www.nimh.nih.gov/
Go To Top

Outplacement Consultants:

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc
www.challengergray.com/cgchome/default.aspx
Association of Career Management Consulting Firms
www.aocfi.org/
Education and career management firm
www.piedmontpress.com/blackwell/
Go To Top
Unemployment Services:
U.S. Department of Labor Employment
& Training Administration
workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/map.asp
Go To Top

Legal Sites:

Legal Resources
www.findlaw.com
National Labor Relations Board
www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/home/default.asp
Law Research
http://206.63.60.14/cfjudic.htm
Age Discrimination Information
www.dol.gov/dol/topic/discrimination/agedisc.htm
Civil Rights Information
www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/ch21.html
Family and Medical Leave Information
www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/
Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ETA/Title_20/Part_639/toc.htm
U.S. Department of Labor
www.dol.gov
Go To Top
Resume Services:
Professional Resumes at Affordable Prices
resumepro@direcway.com
National Resume Writers Association
www.nrwa.com/
Professional Association of Resume Writers and
Career Coaches
www.parw.com/home.html Go To Top

'I lost my job to India, all I got was this lousy T-shirt'

No threat to US jobs because America alone can be the birthplace of ideas. Bangalore techies can only help them reach the market quicker .

Yamini Narayanan is an Indian-born 35-year-old with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.

After graduation, she worked for a US computer company in Virginia and recently moved back to Bangalore with her husband to be closer to family. When I asked her how she felt about the outsourcing of jobs from her adopted country, America, to her native country, India, she responded with a revealing story:

''I just read about a guy in America who lost his job to India and he made a T-shirt that said, 'I lost my job to India and all I got was this (lousy) T-shirt.' And he made all kinds of money.''
Only in America, she said, shaking her head, would someone figure out how to profit from his own unemployment. And that, she insisted, was the reason America need not fear outsourcing to India: America is so much more innovative a place than any other country.

What is Outsourcing?

Listen to the world's top outsourcing authority, Peter Bendor-Samuel, answer the question 'What is Outsourcing?' Click here to watch the video with RealPlayer. Don't have RealPlayer? Download a free player by clicking here.

What is outsourcing? Outsourcing takes place when an organization transfers the ownership of a business process to a supplier. The key to this definition is the aspect of transfer of control. This definition differentiates outsourcing from business relationships in which the buyer retains control of the process or, in other words, tells the supplier how to do the work. It is the transfer of ownership that defines outsourcing and often makes it such a challenging, painful process. In outsourcing, the buyer does not instruct the supplier how to perform its task but, instead, focuses on communicating what results it wants to buy; it leaves the process of accomplishing those results to the supplier.