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Asian Indian Achievements in USA
●The first Indian immigrant entered the United
States in 1790 as a maritime worker.
●There are now more than 1.7 million peoples of
Indian origin in America. They reflect the
multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual
society of India.
●The U.S. Census bureau defines
Indian-Americans as "Asian Indians".
●50% of H-1B visas issued each year go to
Indians.
Source:
http://www.nrilinks.com/usa/Indians/default.htm
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Key factor:
Indian population in USA by States
● The Asian Indian
population had risen more
than two-fold in 2000,
growing to 0.6 percent of
the total US population!
● Top 5
1. California
2. New York
3. New Jersey
4. Texas
5. Illinois
Source: US census bureau (http://www.nrilinks.com/usa/indians/)
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Profile of Asian Indians in U.S.A.
(1990)
of those surveyed are proud of their Asian-Indian heritage.100%
of Asian Indians live in urban areas.90%
of the men in the Asian Indian community have college degrees.80%
of Asian Indians were born outside the U.S.A.75%
of the male Indian immigrants hold managerial/professional/technical jobs.65%
of Asian Indians in the U.S. own their own home.50%
of women in the Asian Indian community are employed outside the home.45%
Only 4 out of 10 Indian immigrants have taken up U.S. citizenship.40%
of Asian-Indians live in the Northeast, 17.9% in the Mid-west, 24% in the South,
and 23.1% in the West.
35%
of all hotels and motels in the U.S. are Indian-owned.30%
The median family income of Indian households is 25% higher than for all U.S.
households.
25%
Source: India: A Dynamic Democracy. A Government of India Publication.
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Education
●More than 87% of Indians in America have
completed high school while at least 62%
have some college education. As much as
58% of Indian Americans over the age of
25 hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
●More than 5,000 Indian Americans today
serve as faculty members in institutions of
higher education in the US.
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Work Force
●Technical, sales, and administrative support
occupations constitute another 33.2% of the work
force.
●The remaining 23.3% of the population works in
other areas, such as operators, fabricators,
laborers and precision production.
●Of these work force participants, 43.6% are
employed in managerial and professional
specialties.
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Specific Areas
●About 300,000 Indian Americans work in
technology firms in California’s Silicon
Valley. They account for more than 15%
of high-tech startups in that region. The
median income of Indian Americans in
that region is estimated to be $125,000
(average $200,000) a year.
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Indian Power
●The estimated annual buying power of
Indian Americans in the United States is
around $ 20 billion.
●According to University of California,
Berkeley Study, about one-third of the
engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian
descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms
are led by Indian CEOs.
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Asian Indians Vs. Average Americans
(1998)
4320$51,00013
Average
American
6957$88,00030Indians
% Online% Graduates
Avg. Annual
Household
Income
% In
Professional Jobs
Educated,
Internet Savvy
Professional, Affluent
Source: US census bureau 1998; Forrester Technographics Report 2000;
Center for Immigration Studies, Washington D.C.
Indians are working as a professional also earning more than
Americans.
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Indians Castle:
Silicon Valley
●4 out of 10 startups in Silicon Valley are started by
Indians and they account for 15% of employees in
technology firms.
●About 300,000 Indian Americans work in
technology firms in California's Silicon Valley. The
average income of Indian Americans in that
region is estimated to be $125,000 a year.
●Non Resident Indian Associations in USA:
○ Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayali, Marathi, Rajasthani,
Tamil, Telugu, Professional, Other
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The Best of Indians
●The number of Indian American New Economy
millionaires is in the thousands.
○ Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla,
co-founder of Sun Microsystems,
○ Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to
Microsoft for $400 million,
○ Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a
number of network-technology companies, is worth
between $4 billion and $6 billion,
○ Walt Disney paid Manoj Night Shyamalan $2.5 million for
the screenplay of the movie The Sixth Sense.
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Indian Stars
● Two Indian Americans - Har Gobind Khorana of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and late Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar of University of
Chicago - have been awarded the Nobel Prize, in medicine and physics
respectively.
● In deed, the NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra
X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
● In 1997, Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian or Indian American to
fly in the US space shuttle. She was part of the Space Shuttle Columbia
Flight STS-87.
● Well-Known CEO’s: Indians are running Fortune 500 companies.
Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is
president and CEO of US Airways. Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, a
member of the American Indian Foundation, is managing director of
consulting giant McKinsey & Co.
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Who Wants to go India?
●Not only Indian Americans but also
American citizens wants to go India.
●What about the other countries?
●Who wants to work in India?
16. 2nd Bridging the I/T
Gap Between the
US and India
Why India is hiring?
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IT Employees in India
●India had about
700,000 IT workers in
2003
●IT positions in current*
popular Indian Job
Search Engines:
*June 07
11.439timesjob
11.118monsterindia
56.541placementindia
35.608naukri
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What is the nature of migration of
highly qualified persons?
●World:
○Increasing mobility of workforce
○Various ways of entrance possible (education,
labor seeking and intra-company)
○Question: Specificities of migration in IT
sector?
Answer: Yes, this is clear.
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What is the onlineView?
●This is new idea:
○Who is interviewer?
■Who wants to get an international job they can use
the online-timing by the way their first-interview’s
will begin.
○How they can use this system?
■Via login to the website.
○Who’s for?
■The international company’s managers and IT
employees.
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Why Online?
●Because this is an international market. We
are talking about InterLands and
InterNational long-term decisions this is
very important. And both of them –receiver
and seeker- want to meet face to face
before decided.
