I Think The Intentions Are To Outsource As Much As Possible?

Question

Mostly everyone I know, including myself cannot obtain employment. Without doubt it seems apparent that the more expertise you have, the more unemployable you become, owing to the salary you would request.
Other than this, they will send you on an endless round of job placements (no pay), work experience programs (no pay), and lastly if you do manage to find a door open, you find that you than encounter servile wages...What is really going on I wonder?

In reply to some of the comments below. If any country increases its population so as to improve its resources of cheap labor...Does this not in itself generate unemployment, housing, and health problems etc?
If so this is a dangerous way to to go, for this happened fairly recently with devastating results.
Does anyone know when this last happened historically?

Funny that I raise this point and no one responds?
So again... Could it not prove dangerous to overly populate an area? And what could possibly happen as a result?

Answer 1

Working for a large insurance corporation in Norwich (no names) who has now outsourced over 8,500 jobs I know exactly what you're saying. The only thing India brings to the table is it's very very cheap. They can't do the job any better, in fact our experience is that they are very poor communicators and technically not that able, since in IT they tend to be straight out of college and with no actual experience to go with their qualifications. My company isn't interested in great expertise, it's about how cheap you are, and my Indian counterparts have just taken 500 IT jobs from us, guaranteeing that the dividends to the shareholders (principally the directors oddly enough) are huge, which is all they care about.
Believe me there's nothing more humiliating than being told they don't want you any more but that you have to train your own replacement before you leave, it's like digging your own grave, but since they have me by the balls for nearly £20,000 severance pay then what alternative do I have...

Hey that's my two cents worth, and yes it's all true.

Answer 2

What is really going on has nothing to do with outsourcing whatsoever. The real culprits are technology and demographics.

On the one hand, the more expertise you have, the greater the temptation to replace you with a combination of a recently hired college graduate and a well-designed computer program. Take a look at the financial sector, for example; where experienced loan officers, underwriters, and actuaries used to reign supreme, now there are 22-year-olds punching numbers into models supplied by Moody's and Fair Isaac. In technology, it's even worse; if a certain technology has been around for five years, a 25-year-old has as much chance to have mastered it as a 45-year-old...

On the other hand, the population is aging. Buying patterns change accordingly, away from houses, cars, and gadgets, toward long-term care. As a result, there is an explosion in low-paying healthcare jobs. In California, Home Health Aides, Personal and Home Health Care Aides, and Social and Human Service Assistants are designated as high-growth occupations...

Answer 3

Self created jobs can pay. Create a website for outsourcing suppliers, like buyer and seller middlemen do. Everything works on negotiated deals. Buy the thing is that you make commission only once. So better than that will be Direct Selling. Employ workers to run for you, paid by commissions. You practically do nothing other than secure their orders deliver on COD terms.

By far the best job. Problem is getting people to do the direct sales.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Cheers!

Answer 4

It's the capitalist system. It's amoral, and outsourcing is a way to improve GDP, Aggregate demand, and profit for the company.

Also there is cyclical unemployment, frictional unemployment, and structural unemployment (among others). You are probably suffering from structural unemployment ("This involves a mismatch between the workers looking for jobs and the vacancies available").

Answer 5

Yes indeed, but it has been happening for decades and you didn't hear public sector workers moaning about it when the shipyards/coalyards etc were shut because it was more economical overseas. It's too late to do anything about it now.
I'm alright Jack.
Anyway, if you really wanted a job then you would go and get one without letting your pride get in the way.

Answer 6

I was unemployed once, it was a horrible, sole destroying, self esteem depleting time. if it happened again i would get myself on some voluntary workshop thing until something came up. i would rather do the most menial of jobs than be unemployed;