Comments on: New Year's resolution: Hire more people

The hiring outlook for 2007 is "moderated, yet stable," and few companies are expecting cutbacks, according to a poll commissioned by CareerBuilder.com.

[donhyrum]

75% of Work Force Is Headed for the Door

http://www.channelinsider.com/article/75+of+Work+Force+Is+Headed+for+the+Door/196779_1.aspx?kc=CWTCIEMLP122006CWS1

[missingamerica]

Re: 75% of Work Force is .....

If you're an American citizen and in IT, one thing you know is as soon as you complete a software project or bring a hardware system on-line, you and your department are history the next time the CEO or CIO wants a pay raise or bonus.

Its more fun to leave before they are prepared for it so you can listen to the sputtering about "loyalty" and "don't you care about us?" from the other side of the fence, especially if you conclude your exit interview with "its just business".

[Bhakta Raj Prabhu das]

New Year's Resolution: Hire more people

I think America took a major step backward with the onset of the Fair Trade Agreement. It's not a case of hiring more people, so much as it's about bringing back these tech jobs that've gone out of the country. I know that one all-too-well: The company I worked for from 1985 to 1995 - and which I'd intended to work for until AT LEAST 2005 - up and flew the coop overseas, leaving many of us out of jobs, and those who stayed on were reduced to being consultants. Here's a thought: How about pressuring the government - letters to Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Mayors, etc. - to take a serious look at what downsizing and it's evil-twin outsourcing (as in jobs going overseas)has done to the fabric of this once great nation. So, hand-in-hand with hiring more people should be the return of jobs to America so the hiring can occur in the first place!
Does this sound reasonable? I'm all for every country on the face of this globe to grow, develop, and prosper; surely this is "of God". But let's keep in mind that charity still is most effective when it's started close to home.

[larryc92039]

New year's resolution: Hire better quality people

1. Stop offshoring. We all know that you get what you pay for. Anybody who tells you that you get well-educated english-speaking people in India or China is full of crap. This trend is killing American companies (like Dell -- wake up you morons, the reason that people aren't coming back to you is that they've all seen the quality of your products and support take a sharp nose dive).

2. Invest in training and retaining staff.

3. You get quality work from your staff by treating them with respect.

4. You get loyalty from your staff by being loyal to them.

These premises seem so self-evident; it's amazing that 99% of American corporations don't follow them.