[jsfg_cinti] ARTICLE: Job security: Is anxiety the only certainty?

Dear JSFG Folks,

Here is an article excerpt that follows up on the news
I posted last week about the impacts of offshore
outsourcing.  Note that the impacts are mainly in the
IT field.  If you are interested in the details, you
should download the PDF file from the Brookings
Institute (the link to the file is contained in the
text of the article below).  It is an interesting
read.

Have a great day!

Regards,
Lance Feldman

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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9011576
or
http://tinyurl.com/2cvgfs

Job security: Is anxiety the only certainty?
by Patrick Thibodeau

February 20, 2007 (Computerworld) Jamie Giovanetto has
made layoffs -- preparing for and handling them -- an
area of expertise.

In classes, he helps his students confront their
concerns with advice on how to avoid the job-cutting
ax as well as how to prepare for it.

And he now has a map where he can point to areas in
the U.S. where job anxiety, particularly from offshore
competition, are likely to be the greatest over the
next several years.

The Brookings Institution last week released a study
that lists areas in the U.S. where offshoring has hit
IT and back-office jobs the hardest. The anticipated
effect of offshoring on metropolitan areas through
2015 has been mapped as well, and Giovanetto held up
the map at the start of his class at IBM's Share
conference in Tampa last week to illustrate one simple
point.

"The only state that doesn't have a metro area
affected by offshoring is Wyoming," said Giovanetto,
who faced a layoff of his own and today is an
independent IBM consultant. He teaches professional
development classes as an avocation at the Share
conferences.

Just attending Giovanetto's class can make you feel
uncomfortable, because it involves thinking about
something most people would rather not imagine. But
concerns about job security can pop up in any forum.
...
The Brookings study (download PDF at:
http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20070131_offshoring.pdf
or http://tinyurl.com/2hqwah) looked at the impact of
offshoring in major markets and found that it may
eliminate as many as one in five programming, software
engineering and back-office jobs in certain markets,
such as Boulder, Colo., San Francisco and San Jose. In
28 metropolitan areas, 2.6% to 4.3% of the jobs may be
lost to offshoring by 2015, with much higher
percentages for those working in IT.
...
Ron Hira, a vice president of IEEE-USA, said the
Brookings report will be a wake-up call for metro
areas with vulnerable labor forces, but he also
believes that the interpretation of the data
understates the impact of offshoring and that job
losses will be higher. To help illustrate the trend,
Hira said, Brookings should have cited some specific
examples, such as Accenture Ltd.'s recent announcement
that it will soon have more employees in India than in
the U.S.
...
Avoiding a layoff requires you to give the best you
can on the job, but even little things can make a
difference, Giovanetto said. Working at becoming a
subject-matter expert and keeping a clean, organized
and professional-looking work space may lead to better
assignments. "It's just an appearance thing, but it
does pay benefits," he said.

If a layoff happens, remain calm, take notes and leave
with your dignity, Giovanetto advised. "There is
nothing you can say or do to change the process," he
said. 

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