Information Technology Outsourcing

Information Technology Outsourcing refers to hardware, desktops, servers, remote infrastructure management, application maintenance and application development.

How Outsourcing Affects Your Career in IT?

Corporations of many countries have outsourced many thousands of Information Technology (IT) jobs to offices outside their country. Many of these jobs belong to so-called offshore organizations in India or Southeast Asia. The media buzz and corporate momentum around IT off-shoring and outsourcing reached a peak in the mid-2000s but continues to be a topic of discussion in the industry.

As a current Information Technology professional or a student considering a future career in IT, outsourcing is a business trend we must fully understand. Don't expect the trend to reverse any time in the expected future, but don't feel powerless to handle with the changes either.

Changes Coming with Information Technology Outsourcing

In the 1990s, workers were attracted to the Information Technology field because

1. Challenging and rewarding work
2. Good pay
3. Numerous opportunities, which promise future growth
4. Long term job stability

Outsourcing has been shifting each of these IT career fundamentals (although the extent has been deeply debated):

1. The nature of the work changes dramatically with off shoring, the future may be equally rewarding, or it may prove wholly undesirable depending on one's individual interests and goals.
2. Information Technology salaries have been increasing rapidly in the countries that receive outsourcing contracts.
3. Likewise, the total number of IT jobs have increased in some countries and may have decreased in some as a result of off-shoring much future growth will happen outside  them, and job stability from country to country varies greatly depending on the maturity of off-shoring business models there.

How to deal with Information Technology Outsourcing?

IT workers in the world are already witnessing some impacts of IT outsourcing, but the future impacts will possibly be even greater. What can you do to prepare? You can consider following ideas.

• Be calm. The prospect of job searches or career changes can be quite stressful to Information Technology workers. IT students may understandably begin to question their choice of career. However, the more stress and worry a person takes on, illogically the more difficult it becomes to successfully reach their career goals.
• Experts have predicted a sharp upturn in the Indian economy and increase in IT jobs many times since the dot-com crash of the early 2000s, that largely has not happened. Expect that businesses with operations in the India. will continue to manage their IT budgets conservatively in the future.
• Years ago in Information Technology, specialization was king. Those with the expert technical backgrounds and loftiest job titles, like Enterprise Architects, commanded the highest salaries. Nowadays, a person is much better positioned if they are skilled in multiple areas of both technology and the business side of IT.
• Look to smaller organizations. Fortune 500 companies will primarily pursue off-shoring ventures but smaller firms less so. Outsourcing creates a large amount of overhead before the gains kick in, and small companies typically can't afford to pay that price.
• Start your own business. Tentative economic times, and occasions of industry change, are often the best ones for starting a new business due to lower prices for capital, less competition, and the natural emergence of big new market opportunities. All it takes is an entrepreneurial attitude and a few good ideas.

Above all, whatever your chosen career path, strive to find happiness in your work. Don't fear the ongoing change in Information Technology just because others are afraid. Control your own destiny.

JosoftTechnologies Consulting team can help you ride these waves by defining and executing a technology agenda that supports your business strategy and control the power of technology innovation, while squeezing value out of your legacy environments, to drive high performance.

We combine our end-to-end portfolio of technology services from strategy and architecture to security and infrastructure with a proven, outcome-oriented approach to improve the design, efficiency and effectiveness of our clients’ IT capabilities.