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Jobs that the US will never shift to India

Software Architects: Yes, we know that after the low-end jobs, more and more high-tech jobs are getting outsourced. But one job that no one is willing to outsource is the software architects.

One of the main things that companies refrain from outsourcing is proprietary knowledge that gives companies competitive edge.

By 2008, the IT workforce situated in the United States will be 25 percent smaller than it is today, according to Gartner. But the workers who remain will be more important to the business than ever.

System architects, technology experts and researchers who design and build the company's most important and complex software are the ones that are perhaps never going to be replaced.

"We will push some product development projects to India and China, but the lion's share will stay where it is, because we think the best workforce is here," Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, said in an interview with CNET News.com

Business Intelligence : Research from Gartner Inc. and other firms suggests that it’s a very good time to be doing BI—at least, as an alternative to working with other technologies. IT professionals who are employed on a full-time basis and who are developing business intelligence solutions should feel reasonably secure about their prospects in the current environment.

Healthcare professionals: Include highly educated and trained physicians; pharmacists and nurses (college degrees and specialty training), dental hygienists (associate's degree) and home health aides (relatively little training and no college degree.)

Jobs Requiring Physical Contact : Other than healthcare pros, janitors, gardeners, dentists are the jobs that will remain in the US. Foreign-born workers may do them, but they'll have to move to the US.

High-End Jobs: They'll be working on architecture, strategy, project management and business processes.

Service-oriented jobs like financial planners, information technology consultants, pharmacists, accountants, teachers. Though here also the IT consultant and accountant jobs have started getting offsourced.

Sales jobs are also not liable to get offshored.

One Size Doesn’t Fit All
One of the rules offshoring is that if it can be codified, it can be done remotely and supported by IT. If it is still tacit and requires a lot of unstructured discussion, then it has to stay in the US.