On 5/3/2010 10:37 PM, Michael Quick wrote:
Another thing, an employer "trick" is to list everything under the sun "required" for the job so they can claim you do not meet them all. Then they can offer you less money. Hence it's prudent to be knowledgeable and explain that to employers, but I wouldn't try to bolster or actually meet them all.
Actually, it's worse than that. It's a wide open secret in the Tech world that the proper way to recruit is to load up the requirements with anything plausibly related to the position. No one can honestly state that they meet /all/ the requirements (except for those currently or formerly employed at that company), which gives the employer the opening to say "no Americans can meet these job requirements, so we need to get an Indian on an H-1B visa". All Indian staffing agencies are liars -- the stated skill set consists of reading a book on the subject on the flight over -- but by the time the employer discovers that, it's too late for them to back out. Besides, H-1Bs work for sweatshop wages, so employers can afford the lower productivity or even have to hire two workers, and they still come out ahead. No employer is willing to take a good, productive American worker and spend a week training them in the specific software the company uses -- they have to be skilled and ready to go on Day One, which is bullshit. It's just an excuse not to pay American workers what they're worth!
This is all part of the Wal*Marting of America. We're exporting all jobs except for the very top executives. An economy can't survive with only people flipping burgers to each other. Please write to your congresscritter and your senators, and demand an immediate end to the H-1B visa program. It has been fraudulent from the very beginning -- there never was a tech worker shortage; it was all contrived to bring in foreign workers and break our wages. Consider doing like I'm going to do from now on, and never vote for anyone on the democrat or republican line -- only third party candidates. The two entrenched parties need to be destroyed, and something less corrupt brought in to replace them. Think about it!
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