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VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding
theodp writes: Back in 2012, Computerworld blasted Vice President Joe Biden for his ignorance of the H-1B temporary work visa program. But Joe's got his H-1B story and he's sticking to it, characterizing the visa program earlier this month in a speech to the National Governors Association as "apprenticeships" of sorts that companies provide to foreign workers to expand the Information Technology industry only after proving there are no qualified Americans to fill the jobs. Biden said he also learned from his talks with tech's top CEOs that 200,000 of the jobs that companies provide each year to highly-skilled H-1B visa holders could in fact be done by Americans with no more than a two-year community college degree.
they can't find people who will work 60-80+ hours for very low pay and the will to be in a place where they can't quit and will be big suck ups not to get fired.
It's not about skills it about this
On average, applications for H-1B workers in computer occupations were for wages $13,000 LESS then what USC get.
$13000 less and they get 60+ work weeks out of them as well.
I have years of experience in programming and management yet 99% of the time HR kicks out my resume because I do not have that BS in Comp Sci. Sorry I was self taught! I had a friend working at a bigger company that recommended me so I actually got an interview. The dept head liked me, got great responses in each of the interviews, then got an email from the dept head saying they filled with another candidate. Found out from my friend they found a guy (H1B) that they could work 6-7 days a week for less than half the salary they were discussing with me. Companies want CHEAP! I have been offered salaries under $18k a year for 6 day work weeks.
Dude, give up while you still can. They can't hear you over the sound of those campaign contributions.
Hey, working 60+ hours per week is a bona fide occupational qualification for some jobs! These immigrants are just filling jobs that Americans don't want to do.
Another problem is that these companies tend to tailor H-1B job requirement statements to particular foreign candidates in such a way that essentially every US-based candidate who might see the posting would not qualify or would ignore it (for example, because of that pay disparity or the work week or other conditions listed in the job description).
They said that they needed Temporary Foreign Workers and it would lead to full time jobs in Canada too.
And then the media got off their butts and figured out that it was really being used to provide cheap labour in Canadian restaurants instead of hiring local teens.
H1-B is a giant sucking sound of jobs being outsourced to India, and I don't mean native tribal lands here in North America.
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