http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY
Check out this video, it’s so dead on. Many of us in the IT staffing industry have dealt with this first hand. “I can get <fill in IT skill> resources for $20 an hour less from XYZ". Companies’ sometimes act like they are buying a commodity product like copier paper, rather than skilled IT consultants.
No manger would ever dream of going to one of their employees and saying, I can get Bob to do your job for $10,000 less per year, yet it’s becoming more prevalent in the IT staffing business.
One of the huge issues facing our industry is the use of H1-B IT consultants. Our leaders in Washington are looking legislation specifically targeting IT consulting firms that use H1-B consultants to limit our ability to do so. This is in the interest of saving American jobs. Unfortunately, the bill currently being debated does not limit multi-national companies, so only the smaller companies will be hurt.
I would love to use local IT consultants for all of our engagements, but the price pressure dictates we do things we normally wouldn’t chose to do. But then again, we’re really just hurting ourselves.
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