Service jobs like retail, catering, and personal care cannot be outsourced because of the inherent personal interactions between the supplier and consumer. -L. Campbell
This is a good article that discusses characteristics of jobs that make them likely/not likely to be offshored and provides some examples:
Characteristics of Jobs Most Likely to Be Moved Offshore:
- Work is highly repetitive (accounting) - Work is predictable and well defined (customer service) - Can be broken down into small manageable projects (software development) - Can be turned into a routine (Tele-marketing) - Proximity to the end customer is not important (phone based tech support of consumer products) - End customer has already moved offshore (semiconductor sales)
Characteristics of Jobs Unlikely to Move Offshore:
- High degree of ambiguity (top management positions) - Unpredictable (hands on technical troubleshooting) - Understanding of the culture is critical (authoring books, marketing, comedians) - Time is of the essence (fast product development) - Requires a high degree of collaboration (making a movie) - Requires close proximity to the end customer (firefighting, auto repair, dental work) - Requires high degree of creativity and innovation (creating new products, technical breakthroughs, writing music
What You Can Do To Protect and Safeguard Your Job:
- Be the best in your field. - Be much better than the next guy. - Demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative. - Market your accomplishments to your management. - Get out of any highly repetitive jobs that do not require close proximity to the customer. - Choose a career where the demand will be so high that even tapping into the huge, low cost labor markets of China and India will not fill all the jobs.
Examples of Jobs with Little Risk of Offshoring
Architect Athelete Bartender Business Owner Electrician Entrepreneur Umpire Waiters
The movies presented some very eye-opening information. It has shown me that we, as a country and a culture are basically living on the laurels of our ancestors and not progressing as we should. We talk about improving our education system and then do nothing. We talk about taking responsibility and then do very little. We have progressed to 20th in the world. Is this progress? Well, I know that I have been a contributer to this wrong way progress so I will try to shut up and do something positive. First things first - correct some of my procedures by obtaining some education and then work on getting others to work on their's. Regarding jobs that I do not believe will be outsourced - Medical and Sanitation are the two that I mentioned earlier. Wm 'Mike' Bobbitt
The future of our jobs have to be in that fields of jobs that are unable to be offshored currently. Law Enforcement, Medical, Basic Labor (construction, landscaping, mechanical). I am sure there are others, but then you have to look at what kind of job you would like. A job or a quality career.
Service industry jobs won’t be outsourced anytime soon. These include hotel employees, auto mechanics, and the like. The general gist so far is work requiring physical use of objects (you can manufacture elsewhere, but eventually someone will actually have to come into physical contact with the product).won’t be replaced anytime soon (unless we suddenly start manufacturing millions of robots). Government jobs probably won’t be outsourced either, as our government typically likes to directly employ its own citizens (not the same as contract work). Some healthcare jobs may not be outsourced, but others might (or be replaced with non-humans). A few hospitals already “employ” aides that are basically big moving storage bins for medicine, etc. However doctors aren’t allowed to do diagnoses in the U.S. without physically examining the patient (though some do anyway). Of course, as long as in-classroom instruction continues to be used, there will be at least some need for educators (not everyone wants to learn without physically being in the classroom).
Our country will continue to move towards a service oreinted society. As such, service related job, resturant, teaching, utilities, etc will be in country.
20 comments:
Medical jobs (nurses)
Sanitation (Waste removal)
Most construction type jobs, including:
Masonary
Electrical
Plumbing
Service jobs like retail, catering, and personal care cannot be outsourced because of the inherent personal interactions between the supplier and consumer.
-L. Campbell
law enforcement and military jobs
Public service (police, social workers.)
Carpenters and construction workers.
Therapists.
Medical. Veterinary.
Creative Arts.
Kimberly J. Vietmeier
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http://www.careerplanner.com/Career-Articles/Offshoring-Jobs.htm
This is a good article that discusses characteristics of jobs that make them likely/not likely to be offshored and provides some examples:
Characteristics of Jobs Most Likely to Be Moved Offshore:
- Work is highly repetitive (accounting)
- Work is predictable and well defined (customer service)
- Can be broken down into small manageable projects (software development)
- Can be turned into a routine (Tele-marketing)
- Proximity to the end customer is not important (phone based tech support of consumer products)
- End customer has already moved offshore (semiconductor sales)
Characteristics of Jobs Unlikely to Move Offshore:
- High degree of ambiguity (top management positions)
- Unpredictable (hands on technical troubleshooting)
- Understanding of the culture is critical (authoring books, marketing, comedians)
- Time is of the essence (fast product development)
- Requires a high degree of collaboration (making a movie)
- Requires close proximity to the end customer (firefighting, auto repair, dental work)
- Requires high degree of creativity and innovation (creating new products, technical breakthroughs, writing music
What You Can Do To Protect and Safeguard Your Job:
- Be the best in your field.
- Be much better than the next guy.
- Demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative.
- Market your accomplishments to your management.
- Get out of any highly repetitive jobs that do not require close proximity to the customer.
- Choose a career where the demand will be so high that even tapping into the huge, low cost labor markets of China and India will not fill all the jobs.
Examples of Jobs with Little Risk of Offshoring
Architect
Athelete
Bartender
Business Owner
Electrician
Entrepreneur
Umpire
Waiters
Landscaping design and Government jobs will remain in the U.S.A.
J. Otey
English Teacher
Air Conditioner Maintenance
greg cook
goverment relative jobs
all area's construction
medical field
Electrician and Plumber
Josh Brooks
* Innovation/ideas will never be outsourced. We as Americans have the best ideas in the world....so i dont seem them being outsourced.
* install jobs i.e. router, switches, and fiber.
* home wireless admin for local housing.
Brian J
The movies presented some very eye-opening information. It has shown me that we, as a country and a culture are basically living on the laurels of our ancestors and not progressing as we should. We talk about improving our education system and then do nothing. We talk about taking responsibility and then do very little. We have progressed to 20th in the world. Is this progress?
Well, I know that I have been a contributer to this wrong way progress so I will try to shut up and do something positive. First things first - correct some of my procedures by obtaining some education and then work on getting others to work on their's.
Regarding jobs that I do not believe will be outsourced - Medical and Sanitation are the two that I mentioned earlier.
Wm 'Mike' Bobbitt
Justin Allen
Teachers/Instructors
Mechanics
Jobs that deal with Home Improvement
The Department of Transportion
The future of our jobs have to be in that fields of jobs that are unable to be offshored currently. Law Enforcement, Medical, Basic Labor (construction, landscaping, mechanical). I am sure there are others, but then you have to look at what kind of job you would like. A job or a quality career.
Jobs that should stay within our borders
1. Installers (Hardware)
2. Outside Plant (cables and Fiber)
3. Education Jobs
4. Food service
5. Janitors
Plumbing, Military, Landscaping, Therapists, chefs, lawyers, Athletes, Servers, Mortgage companies (loan officers), janitors.
Amy Stidham
Service industry jobs won’t be outsourced anytime soon. These include hotel employees, auto mechanics, and the like. The general gist so far is work requiring physical use of objects (you can manufacture elsewhere, but eventually someone will actually have to come into physical contact with the product).won’t be replaced anytime soon (unless we suddenly start manufacturing millions of robots). Government jobs probably won’t be outsourced either, as our government typically likes to directly employ its own citizens (not the same as contract work). Some healthcare jobs may not be outsourced, but others might (or be replaced with non-humans). A few hospitals already “employ” aides that are basically big moving storage bins for medicine, etc. However doctors aren’t allowed to do diagnoses in the U.S. without physically examining the patient (though some do anyway). Of course, as long as in-classroom instruction continues to be used, there will be at least some need for educators (not everyone wants to learn without physically being in the classroom).
Support Positions: computer support, mechanic, ...
Administrative: Dept Head (sales, IT, ...)
Restraunt style jobs
Technician type jobs (on hand/call)
Plumbing
Our country will continue to move towards a service oreinted society. As such, service related job, resturant, teaching, utilities, etc will be in country.
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