India Thinking Big to Tackle Talent Shortage

Posted by Ann All on June 26, 2008 at 11:19 am Last week I wrote about a study that indicates that U.S. job losses due to offshoring are offset by growing sales of U.S.-produced services in other countries. This doesn’t mean there won’t be “losers,” say the researchers, economists Runjuan Liu of the University of Alberta and Daniel Trefler of the University of Toronto, who note that less-educated Americans may have more trouble finding jobs and remaining employed. I cited an earlier post in which I commented on AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s contention that the telecommunications giant couldn’t find enough folks with the right qualifications to fill technical support positions it planned to shift from India back to the U.S. Perhaps the U.S. should look to India’s example. The country’s outsourcing industry, which has long been... [read full story]