Our text authors state that one of the most pronounced threats to your career success is the outsourcing of jobs to other countries where labor is cheaper than in North America. Do feel this is indeed a threat to your career future? Why or why not?
I do feel that the outsourcing of jobs to other countries is a threat to my career future. It is not right that these jobs are being sent to others, whom are most likely, "not qualified" for a particular position. I feel that it is in the company’s best interest to keep the jobs local so companies know whether or not that employee has the right qualifications and credentials. It is smart for countries to employ people whom in which they know will help prosper their country in the future. Overall, I feel it is a horrible decision if a company decides to hire someone just because it is cheaper to pay them. It is in the company’s best interest if they make a logical decision to stick with the well qualified and educated individuals who go to college for that particular position in their company.
In my opinion, outsourcing is a significant factor that may be the cause of decreased job opportunities, however I think that there are still a majority of those companies that believe keeping their employees either local, or at least within the states, is important as well. I think that although labor is cheaper else-where, some of the skills and communication efforts that are confused with distance, are taken into factor and leads companies to stick with those who are qualified and within a closer distance. Outsourcing, or even bringing people in may prove to be more of a threat to my future career than I may imagine, but at this particular time I think the majority of jobs will still have ample opportunities to excel right in front of our noses.
I don't feel that my job can be outsourced. I work at Western Home Communities as an activities coordinator. We are a local non profit organization and so the only way that we could really expand would be to expand in the state. I can see though how other well know companies such as John Deere might see that it might be cheaper to have over seas labor do the job. I say this because currently the number of Chinese people who are learning to speak English is going to out weigh the number of Americans that are speaking English. I can also see how if I was a CEO of a company and I was wanting to make as much money as possible I might consider the cost of outsourcing. However I would not currently do this because of the tough economic time that we are in. In the end you have to weigh the decision of what is better for you and your company and that answer may not always be easy.
I do feel that outsourcing is a threat to my career and future plans, but then again it doesn't affect me because I don't want to be on a phone all day talking. The jobs getting outsourced, I have no interest in those. But it does pose threat because that's less jobs in America and that means more people competing for jobs in America I may want.
I do feel that outsourcing has the potential to threaten job availability. However, I also feel that if I owned a large corporation I would probably outsource as well to cut costs. While it would be horrible to miss out on a job due to outsourcing, I believe it is something that deserves consideration before choosing your career path so therefore you can avoid it as much as possible.
I do not feel that outsourcing is a threat to my particular career future. I will agree that for millions of unemployed people, outsourcing is to blame. However, I feel that my current position as well as any occupation I would choose to have in the future cannot be outsourced.
Personally, I do not feel like outsourcing will directly change my future career; in my opinion, businesses will always need to communicate with their publics and publics will always want contact with businesses. However, outsourcing may change who we as PR practioners work for/with. With more and more businesses being outsourced to foreign countries, we may need to think about making ourself familiar with other languages and cultures. Like it or not, we are losing a lot of businesses to foreign countries who can do the same thing cheaper.
I believe outsourcing provides competition in the workforce, which usually only benefits the economy. Since more and more jobs are being outsourced to other countries, I have a responsibility to become more marketable so I can compete during interviews and convince employers to hire me. Although the stress of competing with others can force me to work harder, outsourcing is still a threat. My concern is what if outsourcing gets taken to the extreme? When will the line be drawn that "x" amount of jobs will be outsourced to a,b,c countries? I do not want it to get to a point where outsourcing becomes so normal that our economy starts to lose jobs and make it more difficult to find a career in the U.S.
Outsourcing may or may not be an issue in every occupation. Overall, any business has the goal to be successful and that comes down to one thing, money. Two cases may be a possibility when considering running a business. If hiring labor at a lower pay is possible it sounds like the obvious choice. This would allow the company to use or save the extra money for other aspects of the business. The downfall to this may be not having qualified help. When having a successful business, qualified labor is one of the largest attributes to the company. Myself as an employee, I do not feel threatened by outsourcing of labor from other countries because I feel being qualified outweighs cheap labor. In the end, if it comes down to a successful business, I think you will come out on top if the individuals are more qualified, rather than cheap labor.
Outsourcing jobs may not directly affect every working individual. However, due to outsourcing, the local job market could become too competitive and leave too many people without a job. Companies and organizations that outsource should consider the local jobs they provide to people first and resort to outsourcing as a later option if needed. In the past few years, many jobs have been lost in the United States. Therefore, outsourcing needs to be controlled and not a first resort.
I think outsourcing is definitely a threat to jobs in the United States. The only reason that jobs have to be outsourced is to keep prices down and the reason labor is so expensive in the US is because of excessive regulation in the market. The job market becoming too competitive is not a problem and will never become one. Consumers demand the best product at the lowest price, so if you have what it takes this will definitely work to your advantage. Good products thrive, while bad ones die out. I think that outsourcing will not effect my ability to get a job. If you work hard and you can learn how business owners think you will be successful regardless of your competition (i.e. outsourced labor).
I believe that outsourcing may be a problem when it comes to our futures. It sets higher standards for us to be able to beat, which is a good thing. Than one has to ask if jobs are being outsourced to those companies where they are at a higher pace with everything, do we have a chance to catch up? Even though they have a cheaper labor, doesnt mean they don't know as much? I think that it sets my limits higher to make more of an impact on a career choose to choice me over them because I hope to know or be educated in something they dont know. I believe either way you look at this it could go either way. I have learned that you need to stick hard to something you want, so that means if you have a little competition its a good thing to fight for. Outsourcing is a way that needs to be controlled, yet maintained for certain jobs. I think our futures are threatened by a lot, this just makes one more thing I hope to over come!
Comparing to the severity of this impression discussed by the book, I feel that this is not as much of a threat to my career future. Although I disagree, I do understand for some professions, outsourcing is a real threatening issue. The profession I would be pursuing is not being threatened by the outsourcing by its nature of the business. Pursuing a career in audio/audio post-production would not come across a threatening outsourcing issue. To put a spin on the topic, outsourcing is very common and a healthy occurrence in the audio industry. Why? How? Well, because most music and audio productions are made digitally in all stages of production now, collaboration between professionals on a particular project occurs at the local, nation and international level. At the international level, outsourcing occurs in certain parts of the production process by the well adaptation to the digital world. Collaboration occurs via the internet by program and file transfer having multiple individuals contribute to the project with their own niche of skill sets. A good part of the post production industry is that professionals in the U.S. get projects outsourced from other countries into the U.S. If you critically examine how the internet connects everyone around the world, basically it comes down to everyone living in the same place: there are no physical boundaries and lines of territory; it’s the World Wide Web. Everyone being in the same domain helps create the give-give relationship of outsourcing going in and out of the country. Again, outsourcing occurs in my career field but is not a threatening issue which leads me to disagree with the books standpoint.
We have been outsourcing jobs for quite a while now. It is cheaper for businesses and helps with our foreign affairs. Has it been a threat in the past? Yes, I believe it is and has been a threat. It is slowly chipping away many jobs that are well needed here for other citizens. Like others have said, there are also many things that are threat occupations. I do believe that it will not necessarily threaten me in my career choice though.
Do I personally feel that outsourcing will affect my future career goals? No, i do not. I would say for most Public Relation jobs out there that, as long as you keep interaction with people, working face to face, then that job can more than likely stay secure. It's the jobs that are done in factories, etc...that are being taken to other countries for the cheap labor. In some ways this is beneficial for that particular company, but if you look at the economy we are facing now as a country, it is not in the least bit helpful. There are too many people who are looking for jobs that aren't finding them; and too many people looking for jobs to pay the rent and take care of their families. This fact makes outsourcing, in my eyes, not a good thing...
Honestly. i feel that is a possibility with almost every professional career. Outsourcing is indeed a major threat, but with hard work and dedication job security will probably be solid. My biggest fear is to finish school and have only a narrow selection of careers and workplaces to choose from. As one goes through school it is wise to learn as many aspects of the communication field as possible. outsourcing is a threat but finding solutions to these worries should be sought after now as under graduates.
I do believe that outsourcing is a threat to many careers in the United States, however, I do not see outsourcing threatening my specific career. If anything, the chances of me being turned down for jobs is more likely due to "over qualification" versus my job being outsourced for lower income.
Often referred to as Off-shoring I am not sure on how I think about outsourcing, I am against outsourcing production jobs to mexico, south aftrica, Italy because this country does not produce anything anymore, we are just transferring our money from one source to another instead of making money. I don’t like outsourcing customer service jobs because I can’t understand the individuals, but this is no reason to say someone can’t have these jobs. I don’t like that business people can manipulate these countries so they can make more money and that these countries governments take advantage of their own people.
I do feel that the outsourcing of jobs to other countries is a threat to my career future. It is not right that these jobs are being sent to others, whom are most likely, "not qualified" for a particular position. I feel that it is in the company’s best interest to keep the jobs local so companies know whether or not that employee has the right qualifications and credentials. It is smart for countries to employ people whom in which they know will help prosper their country in the future. Overall, I feel it is a horrible decision if a company decides to hire someone just because it is cheaper to pay them. It is in the company’s best interest if they make a logical decision to stick with the well qualified and educated individuals who go to college for that particular position in their company.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, outsourcing is a significant factor that may be the cause of decreased job opportunities, however I think that there are still a majority of those companies that believe keeping their employees either local, or at least within the states, is important as well. I think that although labor is cheaper else-where, some of the skills and communication efforts that are confused with distance, are taken into factor and leads companies to stick with those who are qualified and within a closer distance. Outsourcing, or even bringing people in may prove to be more of a threat to my future career than I may imagine, but at this particular time I think the majority of jobs will still have ample opportunities to excel right in front of our noses.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel that my job can be outsourced. I work at Western Home Communities as an activities coordinator. We are a local non profit organization and so the only way that we could really expand would be to expand in the state. I can see though how other well know companies such as John Deere might see that it might be cheaper to have over seas labor do the job. I say this because currently the number of Chinese people who are learning to speak English is going to out weigh the number of Americans that are speaking English. I can also see how if I was a CEO of a company and I was wanting to make as much money as possible I might consider the cost of outsourcing. However I would not currently do this because of the tough economic time that we are in. In the end you have to weigh the decision of what is better for you and your company and that answer may not always be easy.
ReplyDeleteI do feel that outsourcing is a threat to my career and future plans, but then again it doesn't affect me because I don't want to be on a phone all day talking. The jobs getting outsourced, I have no interest in those. But it does pose threat because that's less jobs in America and that means more people competing for jobs in America I may want.
ReplyDeleteAll very valid points. We have things to discuss!
ReplyDeleteI do feel that outsourcing has the potential to threaten job availability. However, I also feel that if I owned a large corporation I would probably outsource as well to cut costs. While it would be horrible to miss out on a job due to outsourcing, I believe it is something that deserves consideration before choosing your career path so therefore you can avoid it as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteI do not feel that outsourcing is a threat to my particular career future. I will agree that for millions of unemployed people, outsourcing is to blame. However, I feel that my current position as well as any occupation I would choose to have in the future cannot be outsourced.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I do not feel like outsourcing will directly change my future career; in my opinion, businesses will always need to communicate with their publics and publics will always want contact with businesses. However, outsourcing may change who we as PR practioners work for/with. With more and more businesses being outsourced to foreign countries, we may need to think about making ourself familiar with other languages and cultures. Like it or not, we are losing a lot of businesses to foreign countries who can do the same thing cheaper.
ReplyDeleteI believe outsourcing provides competition in the workforce, which usually only benefits the economy. Since more and more jobs are being outsourced to other countries, I have a responsibility to become more marketable so I can compete during interviews and convince employers to hire me. Although the stress of competing with others can force me to work harder, outsourcing is still a threat. My concern is what if outsourcing gets taken to the extreme? When will the line be drawn that "x" amount of jobs will be outsourced to a,b,c countries? I do not want it to get to a point where outsourcing becomes so normal that our economy starts to lose jobs and make it more difficult to find a career in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteOutsourcing may or may not be an issue in every occupation. Overall, any business has the goal to be successful and that comes down to one thing, money. Two cases may be a possibility when considering running a business. If hiring labor at a lower pay is possible it sounds like the obvious choice. This would allow the company to use or save the extra money for other aspects of the business. The downfall to this may be not having qualified help. When having a successful business, qualified labor is one of the largest attributes to the company. Myself as an employee, I do not feel threatened by outsourcing of labor from other countries because I feel being qualified outweighs cheap labor. In the end, if it comes down to a successful business, I think you will come out on top if the individuals are more qualified, rather than cheap labor.
ReplyDeleteOutsourcing jobs may not directly affect every working individual. However, due to outsourcing, the local job market could become too competitive and leave too many people without a job. Companies and organizations that outsource should consider the local jobs they provide to people first and resort to outsourcing as a later option if needed. In the past few years, many jobs have been lost in the United States. Therefore, outsourcing needs to be controlled and not a first resort.
ReplyDeleteI think outsourcing is definitely a threat to jobs in the United States. The only reason that jobs have to be outsourced is to keep prices down and the reason labor is so expensive in the US is because of excessive regulation in the market. The job market becoming too competitive is not a problem and will never become one. Consumers demand the best product at the lowest price, so if you have what it takes this will definitely work to your advantage. Good products thrive, while bad ones die out. I think that outsourcing will not effect my ability to get a job. If you work hard and you can learn how business owners think you will be successful regardless of your competition (i.e. outsourced labor).
ReplyDeleteI believe that outsourcing may be a problem when it comes to our futures. It sets higher standards for us to be able to beat, which is a good thing. Than one has to ask if jobs are being outsourced to those companies where they are at a higher pace with everything, do we have a chance to catch up? Even though they have a cheaper labor, doesnt mean they don't know as much? I think that it sets my limits higher to make more of an impact on a career choose to choice me over them because I hope to know or be educated in something they dont know. I believe either way you look at this it could go either way. I have learned that you need to stick hard to something you want, so that means if you have a little competition its a good thing to fight for. Outsourcing is a way that needs to be controlled, yet maintained for certain jobs. I think our futures are threatened by a lot, this just makes one more thing I hope to over come!
ReplyDeleteComparing to the severity of this impression discussed by the book, I feel that this is not as much of a threat to my career future. Although I disagree, I do understand for some professions, outsourcing is a real threatening issue. The profession I would be pursuing is not being threatened by the outsourcing by its nature of the business. Pursuing a career in audio/audio post-production would not come across a threatening outsourcing issue.
ReplyDeleteTo put a spin on the topic, outsourcing is very common and a healthy occurrence in the audio industry. Why? How? Well, because most music and audio productions are made digitally in all stages of production now, collaboration between professionals on a particular project occurs at the local, nation and international level. At the international level, outsourcing occurs in certain parts of the production process by the well adaptation to the digital world. Collaboration occurs via the internet by program and file transfer having multiple individuals contribute to the project with their own niche of skill sets. A good part of the post production industry is that professionals in the U.S. get projects outsourced from other countries into the U.S. If you critically examine how the internet connects everyone around the world, basically it comes down to everyone living in the same place: there are no physical boundaries and lines of territory; it’s the World Wide Web. Everyone being in the same domain helps create the give-give relationship of outsourcing going in and out of the country.
Again, outsourcing occurs in my career field but is not a threatening issue which leads me to disagree with the books standpoint.
We have been outsourcing jobs for quite a while now. It is cheaper for businesses and helps with our foreign affairs. Has it been a threat in the past? Yes, I believe it is and has been a threat. It is slowly chipping away many jobs that are well needed here for other citizens. Like others have said, there are also many things that are threat occupations. I do believe that it will not necessarily threaten me in my career choice though.
ReplyDeleteDo I personally feel that outsourcing will affect my future career goals? No, i do not. I would say for most Public Relation jobs out there that, as long as you keep interaction with people, working face to face, then that job can more than likely stay secure. It's the jobs that are done in factories, etc...that are being taken to other countries for the cheap labor. In some ways this is beneficial for that particular company, but if you look at the economy we are facing now as a country, it is not in the least bit helpful. There are too many people who are looking for jobs that aren't finding them; and too many people looking for jobs to pay the rent and take care of their families. This fact makes outsourcing, in my eyes, not a good thing...
ReplyDeleteHonestly. i feel that is a possibility with almost every professional career. Outsourcing is indeed a major threat, but with hard work and dedication job security will probably be solid. My biggest fear is to finish school and have only a narrow selection of careers and workplaces to choose from. As one goes through school it is wise to learn as many aspects of the communication field as possible. outsourcing is a threat but finding solutions to these worries should be sought after now as under graduates.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that outsourcing is a threat to many careers in the United States, however, I do not see outsourcing threatening my specific career. If anything, the chances of me being turned down for jobs is more likely due to "over qualification" versus my job being outsourced for lower income.
ReplyDeleteThursday, January 6, 2011
ReplyDeleteOutsourcing
Often referred to as Off-shoring
I am not sure on how I think about outsourcing, I am against outsourcing production jobs to mexico, south aftrica, Italy because this country does not produce anything anymore, we are just transferring our money from one source to another instead of making money. I don’t like outsourcing customer service jobs because I can’t understand the individuals, but this is no reason to say someone can’t have these jobs. I don’t like that business people can manipulate these countries so they can make more money and that these countries governments take advantage of their own people.
I feel outsourcing has affected many careers;however, I don't feel the career path I have chosen to take will be directly affected by outsourcing.
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