Nearly 8million tech jobs will go unfilled in US this year Released by: Jay Web Site: http://www.job-quest.net/news01.htm Nearly 8million tech jobs will go unfilled in US this year Email: jdc1370@yahoo.co.uk Keywords: Tech Jobs in USA, Jobabroad, Job in USA, H1B, Update Date: 1/1/2007 11:58:57 PM Hits: 159 Descrption:  After years of sending high-tech production work abroad, U.S. companies are increasingly shipping sophisticated software development and other engineering jobs overseas because they can't find enough qualified workers here. The escalated hiring of brainpower abroad, however, is carrying with it concerns about efficiency, management and the spontaneous creativity that comes from having employees working on projects together in the same place. About 10% of Southern California's 8,000 software firms are now relying on skilled workers in foreign countries--up from barely 1% two years ago, said Rohit Shukla, president of the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance.