Re:large pool of qualified applicants in the marke (Score 1)

Can you really not find qualified people, or are you removing yourself from their consideration? If you want a superstar developer for cheap, they aren't even going to reply to your ad. And all the people you do see are probably no more qualified than the offshore resources you'll eventually hire. I agree that people who can think are in short supply, but the reality is you don't get that automatically just by going offshore for staff. In my experience, offshoring isn't about talent as much as cost savings. Coders are cheap and plentiful, developers are expensive and rare. Most companies that can't find talent are trying to hire developers at coder rates.