Re: Rural Outsourcing

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:57 -0500, Jim Franz wrote:
> (for me) it's still who you know.... I see jobs get filled by someone
> recommending someone else - not by job listings and web posting boards.
> To put it bluntly, that's a cr** shoot way to hire. The job listings go up
> when contacts don't find the right person. I would agree
> the days of a 'warm body coder' are about gone. You need to really know
> some particular app or certain niche skill, especially for telecomute. I've 
> been
> telecomuting for over 7 years and contract/consulting for decades before 
> that,
> and it has always been who & what you know.
> Many companies will not lead with telecommute, but if your the right
> person & skillset for the job, they may very well consider it (especially if
> you ask for relocation expenses if not a telecommute).
> jim franz

I agree.  I've been consulting since 1991, and haven't skipped a beat,
until recently.  I've seen a number of customers decide to de-install
AS/400 and go another route.  I've seen some large outsource deals.

But I haven't seen very much 'rural-outsourcers' as the OP suggests.  I
suggest there would be more evidence of it -- especially on job boards
-- if it were more common.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Duzenbury" <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Rural Outsourcing
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:28 -0600, Shannon ODonnell wrote:
> >
> >> But she does make a great point.  Why in the world would any company want 
> >> to
> >> send programming work to India when you can get quality, reasonably 
> >> priced
> >> work done right here in the U.S. through the use of rural-outsourcers?
> >>
> > I don't know.  I've lived in central Iowa for about ten years now.  I
> > can work for my customers in California and other 'high rent' places for
> > a decent wage, but with an Iowa expense level.  However, I've noticed
> > that jobs are getting harder to come by, even so.
> >
> > If it's so great, than why is it rare?  I ran a quick search on dice.com
> > for 'RPG or ILE or AS/400 or AS400 or i5 or iSERIES'.  1043 results.
> > Check the 'telecommute only' box and watch that drop to fifteen.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rich
> >
> >
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