For me, the wake up call was reading Ashutosh Sheshabalaya’s book, “Rising Elephant”, around 2005/6. He was very clear that big changes were coming for both the US and Europe as India’s offshoring juggernaut builds global momentum.
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On Wall Street, IT Career Change Now Blowing In The Wind
Sunday, March 29, 2009
It’s a well written piece – with the subheadings from page one alone telling a particularly torrid and alarming story (e.g. Quarter-million jobs, Self-worth, No Callbacks, Transaction bubble, Nobu’s Retreat).
According to my Tokyo headhunter contacts, most all the Foreign Banks are in lock down mode for IT hiring. Good people are being let go, sent overseas (Singapore is popular) or outsourced.
Iceland – Answers From A Foreign IT Director
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Even though Iceland’s economy is in dire straits and the outlook remains uncertain, CCP games is one company that continues to do well.
Jon Mayes is IT Director of CCP Games – the Icelandic Developer & Publisher of EVE Online, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.
Will Your IT Career Survive and Thrive In 2009?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This post’s for UK-based Information Technology employees worried about losing their jobs but nonetheless determined to survive and thrive – and is a follow-up to my post on ‘career support for IT professionals’.
Having just talked Friday night with an IT career coach back in the Sceptred Isle, here’s a 1st draft outline of what we’d like to cover in a series of teleseminars:
Iceland – Questions For A Foreign IT Professional
Friday, January 23, 2009
Following on from my post about Ireland’s slowing Celtic tiger economy, today let’s turn to the small nation of Iceland where banking collapse now seems to be triggering increasingly angry protests.
(For an insight into the developing social unrest see this article in today’s UK Guardian newspaper.)
A while back one of my American friends in Japan relocated to Iceland for a dream IT job with an Icelandic computer games company. He’s still there and, as far as I know, still gainfully employed.
