I have previously tried to answer the question " why multinationals should choose to recruit Swedish engineers in srilankanska ditos? although srilankanska engineers with the exact same skills can be employed in a much smaller sum. " Karl Wackerberg criticize and complements my argument in his latest post why you recruit .

Karl understands, like me, the point of gathering arguments and think about the issue for the future to justify its employment. In today's tough economic activity will reduce Ericsson, Volvo and Saab manufacturing in Sweden. New figures claim that unemployment could exceed 10% before the bottom has been reached. In January was 7.3% unemployed in Sweden. While reports Chinese business media, Ericsson employs in China in 2009. According chinatechnews.com is the issue of more than one hundred new jobs. It is quite clear that there is little evidence to suggest that tomorrow's jobs are in Sverige.Tvärt about.

To return to the dialogue saw Karl Wackerberg my argument. For the fösta parts he rejects the view that history and tradition is important. Of course, we look forward Karl, I agree!

Chinese junk replica. A poor attempt to copy Western products

The statistics I present for a patent may also be possible to discuss. Karl believes that there is no tradition for srilankaneser to apply for a patent, which explains the numbers. Karl also believes that our ignorance of their culture is an important factor. Enough is it that Sri Lanka has contributed much to the industrialized and developed world that we just do not know. I do not know, but our guess is NO.

Sri-Lanka, according to me, like China, India and Taiwan, good examples of countries striving to copy Western culture and living standards. They are crying out for our cars, phones and inventions, and has become the world champion at copying. See, for example, an article in New technology of the iPhone.

No, for the understanding of western products and markets requires Western engineers. The question is whether it is required srilankanska engineers to understand their markets? The answer is chipped. YES if you want to sell srilankanska products. NO, if your company wants to sell Western products and Western culture, which is largely what is in demand in these countries.

One can also wonder how good the quality is on the srilankanska universities and their students? Where were you educated a person who requires 18 SEK / h salary? A top university has tuition fees of over 100 thousand. Give me the calculation that shows that SriLankan with 18 crowns per hour can see that an investment in training of over a million dollars. I do not think it will suit! True, it is so that a person in today's society may acquire great knowledge on the training of lower status. Maybe even on their own through the internet. It tends to be that companies want a workforce with fine paper. Something that probably will not change as population growth increases. The table shows the impossible calculus. The loan is assumed to be at a million dollars with a 5% annual interest rate with no amortization (generously). The annual salary is estimated at 18 kr / h, 40 h week with no holidays.

Ranking Lists of Earth University is constantly by different agencies. Timeshighereducation is a välrennomerad list. The list has the best Chinese universities in position 50 and the number two spot on 113th Compared with the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers, Lund and Linköping will place about 200 and higher and UNSW (Sydned Australia), where I will study this fall, on-site 40th Sri Lanka is not on the list. Of course, the criteria can be discussed, but many independent instutut in different parts of the world reaches almost the same conclusions:

Σ: There is hope. Employ Swedish engineers with tradition and knowledge in the future. Hire me!