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The North American labor market continues to strengthen, even though financial markets remain uncertain. The increase in demand for qualified talent focuses on four fundamental areas: Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering. The phenomenon seems most visible in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay area, where companies are offering recruitment bonuses and special benefits to attract millennials specialized in these areas.This high demand represents an opportunity for the provision of IT services in the nearshoring modality from Latin America, because companies are looking inside and outside the US for the talent they need. In fact, H-1B type visas fill up within a few weeks of leaving and the Government hopes to support the business sector by graduating 400,000 students a year in these four deficit areas, when a few years ago it graduated only .
In general, the way American companies are handling this limited access to skilled IT employees is this: low-value, high-volume transactions are done offshore in India or Southeast Asia. Development and testing are being carried out in Latin American Country Email List nearshoring companies. High-value, long-term strategic tasks are carried out in-house , due to the need to form teams locally for future development.rad Smith -President of Microsoft- estimates that "in 10 years there will be 500,000 new jobs in the US in the computing area, which creates a serious problem if the talent deficit in this field continues." According to Smith, “this will force companies to look for talent with experience in outsourcing.
The great opportunity - raised by Smith himself - lies with Developers with some experience, because, even graduating the expected quota of students in the required time, the necessary learning curve means that they are not ready to add value immediately.If you are a Developer and have some experience gained, you already know where you have another great opportunity.This is a theory widely discussed by scientists and researchers who study brain functioning. Experiments on what has been called “the advantage of bilingualism” offer partial, inconclusive results, but in general, they point to the benefit of mastering a second language for the purposes of greater efficiency in programming.
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