Reshaping Asia's Tech Talent Pool

As businesses in China and India seek more workers, they're encountering a shortage of new hires with soft skills
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Juniper Networks, a maker of high-end routers, needs 600 technical staff in Bangalore this year. Worksoft Creative Software Technology, an outsourcing firm in Beijing with clients like IBM, intends to hire 850-plus engineers in 2006 and another thousand next year.

For the two firms, at either end of Asia, the problem is the same: the new hires just aren't there.