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IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth
buzzardsbay writes "For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high-profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving myth. "It seems like every three years you've got one group or another saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""
who are willing to work for $20 an hour with a masters degree.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
H1B supposed to be when no qualified person can be found here BUT qualified is not defined: 1. Find IT person in overseas country of your choice 2. Write requirements to fit only that person 3. Advertise job, reject all domestic applicants. Ex. Job requires 5 years Unix experience , you have 4.5 4. Bring in person, pay 60% of going rate 5. Never forget your campaign contribution. 6. = profit = re-election
If we could do a "Terminator" and go back over the last 4 decades and just shoot the people responsible for:
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