Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
“They basically have a shortage of skilled people,” says Sanderson.
“They have six IT schools in India graduating very well skilled people
but you’ve got companies like IBM looking for 11,000 people and
there’re not that many skilled people that can feed those companies
that fast.
“So if you bring in a new Indian IT person,
he expects to be promoted within six months. And if he doesn’t get a
20% bump in six months and another 20% after that, he can walk down the
street and get another job and that’s what they’re doing.
“If you’re looking for people with 3 to5 years’ experience, I would say that India is now more expensive than the Philippines.”
While the Philippines is a good option to India for companies like
Lawson, Sanderson believes that organizations with bigger staffing
needs will eventually turn to China as an alternative to India.
“In five or ten years, the big guys are going to skip over to China.
It’s developing really fast and they’ve started teaching English in
primary schools. In 10 years, those kids will have the communications
and technical skills and there will be the numbers to staff the
companies that want 1,000 to 10,000 employees.”
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