The MGS Blog

Monday, November 5, 2012

Should Western graduates plan to work offshore?

Should Western graduates plan to work offshore? Australian tech graduates are being encouraged to take up internships in India. Should we?

Extract from the article...
"Now the NSW government has given its backing to a program to send young workers to the sub-continent to gain experience and improve their employability.
Five information and communication technology (ICT) students and recent graduates from the University of NSW and Sydney University will spend eight weeks living and working on campus at Infosys, India's largest technology services vendor, from January next year.
Headquartered in Bangalore, and listed in the US, Infosys is an IT outsourcing and consultancy vendor employing 153,000 people worldwide, including 2400 in Australia."
 (see the article on smh.com.au)