Whenever I get calls from recruiters (even though I removed my resume from public places years ago), I tell them I am not interested.
Maybe this is why some people on here can't get good jobs. Didn't you read what the guy above said? He pays a fortune to Monster and recruiters. Need a job? Throw your resume on Monster and wait for the recruiters to start calling. Or, if they're already calling you, talk to them.
I maintain a good relationship with 5 recruiters at any given time. I chat with them for 5 minutes whenever they call and just let them know where I'm at. If things aren't going well at work for some reason (lame new manager, no good projects), I let them know that.
When my last boss started becoming an absolute tyrant, I let my 3-4 recruiter friends know that I was looking. But not only that, I wanted to recover the money I had lost in my wage during the recession, so I told them I wouldn't move unless I was making 20% more. It took a little longer, but I eventually got 2 offers and used them against each other and got what I wanted.
OK, so I taught myself HTML5 and CSS3 and Canvas programming and JQuery at home in my spare time. While not having "5 years experience" in these topics, I listed them in the talents section of my resume (which got by the HR filters) and I spoke eloquently about it in detail in my interview at my current company and got the job. People on here need to stop whining and start working a little harder (and I am pretty lazy myself).
My last job was full of H1Bs. I eventually found out that my H1B friend, who was actually junior to me by a decade got paid MORE than me. I was surprised, but the company was very afraid of not paying "prevailing wage". And both of us made more than my boss (he told me himself). So I'm just not really seeing what you're saying.
Also, any experience gained at your current job cannot be used to qualify you for a green card, which is the only way to stay and keep working after 6 years on H1B.
I don't know what you mean by this. The H1Bs I know absolutely are working on green cards as part of the H1B program.
Well then won't you be happy to find out that this law already exists. If my current company wanted to hire my friend who is H1B, they had to pay him the same as everyone else and then $5000 more for H1B sponsorship costs. Literally, they would have had to pay out the same for him as for me and I have tons of lead and architect experience and he did not.
Having done some hiring of H1B, I can confirm that this is the case. The company I am at now turned down an H1B friend of mine from my last company, because the sponsorship made him $5000 more than everyone else.
And who would have the moral fortitude to stand up to that kind of pressure because it's "the right thing"?
As far as I can see, only 2 types of people:
* Devout religious people (for religious reasons)
* Devout libertarians (for ideological reasons)
How many of you on here would elect either one of these candidates once you find out they are...
* Also anti-gay (religious) or pro-gay (libertarian)?
* Also anti-abortion (religious) or pro-abortion (libertarian)?
* Wants Creationist teaching (religious)?
* Pro-drug (libertarian)?
I can go on and on. The fact is, anyone who has the morals to stand up to them also has deep convictions as to what else should make up a better society. And the media (which is, of course, also the MAFIAA) is expert at finding these hot buttons and pushing them thereby ensuring that such a candidate never has a sniff of being elected by making them seem repugnant to the other side that has different morals.
My daughter also wanted to do art, but I noticed that she occasionally would redesign a label on a 7Up bottle and stuff like that. I am encouraging her to go into graphic design instead. She's good with computers and she'll make good money doing it. Nobody makes money on paintings until after they're dead.
It's easy to get a job in IT almost anywhere in the country. If you like English, try to find a job as a tech writer. Or write user manuals for a company that manufactures things. There are a lot of high-paying jobs out there compared to being a professor.
Academic departments at Universities are kingdoms held by powerful (in the University) people. They are NOT going to let that power go away easily no matter how much damage they are doing to generations of students. There is no logic or wisdom to a University's decisions, just placating a lot of fearful, powerful kings...
This is why the percentages at Universities still resemble ones that would have made sense at the turn of the last century...
An intelligent person comes to recognize that having a LITERATURE DEGREE isn't a route to financial security.
Wow. That's some insight.
(This reminds me of an interview I saw on NPR purporting to illustrate how "hard" times have gotten in Greece, that PhD's were waiting tables in restaurants and barely scraping by. Almost as an aside at the end of the interview, they asked him what his PhD was in - "Russian Literature". I almost crashed my car I was laughing so hard.)
That's unintentionally hilarious! Some of the most intelligent people can also be the least wise...
Then be a journalist, blogger, tech writer, document translator (if you know 2 languages)... How about a book or movie reviewer? A talent scout for a publishing company.
Just because you have a PhD, doesn't mean an instant $100K job. You have to start at the ground floor and show people that you can actually provide useful work that makes someone money somewhere.
Literature is not a field that will help you absorb the meaning of literary works and apply their lessons to your life through an understanding of human experience.
People are very bad at reading the wisdom of others and applying it to their own lives to their benefit... This is why pastors have congregations...
Cypriot bank: The government takes 20% of your money because they screwed up.
Bitcoins: Your money tripled in the last month. If you trust your money to someone else's website for long periods (or indefinitely), you could lose it all (although Instawallet is paying out claims to people that lost money in cash (not bitcoins)).
In other words, cut off a pocket of the internet from the rest of the internet and get all the Bitcoin processors on there to agree quickly and then transfer the coins into dollars by fooling an exchange on the same subnet? Yes, it's possible. But if you ever reconnect to the world at large, your transaction would be considered invalid and the exchange would be out the cash. Of course, the exchange should know how many peers there are, and should be suspicious if that number drops to 1% and halt all transactions...
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Whenever I get calls from recruiters (even though I removed my resume from public places years ago), I tell them I am not interested.
Maybe this is why some people on here can't get good jobs. Didn't you read what the guy above said? He pays a fortune to Monster and recruiters. Need a job? Throw your resume on Monster and wait for the recruiters to start calling. Or, if they're already calling you, talk to them.
I maintain a good relationship with 5 recruiters at any given time. I chat with them for 5 minutes whenever they call and just let them know where I'm at. If things aren't going well at work for some reason (lame new manager, no good projects), I let them know that.
When my last boss started becoming an absolute tyrant, I let my 3-4 recruiter friends know that I was looking. But not only that, I wanted to recover the money I had lost in my wage during the recession, so I told them I wouldn't move unless I was making 20% more. It took a little longer, but I eventually got 2 offers and used them against each other and got what I wanted.
OK, so I taught myself HTML5 and CSS3 and Canvas programming and JQuery at home in my spare time. While not having "5 years experience" in these topics, I listed them in the talents section of my resume (which got by the HR filters) and I spoke eloquently about it in detail in my interview at my current company and got the job. People on here need to stop whining and start working a little harder (and I am pretty lazy myself).
Apply anyway, get an interview and convince them. I haven't been "qualified" for half the jobs I've gotten.
My last job was full of H1Bs. I eventually found out that my H1B friend, who was actually junior to me by a decade got paid MORE than me. I was surprised, but the company was very afraid of not paying "prevailing wage". And both of us made more than my boss (he told me himself). So I'm just not really seeing what you're saying.
This would actually be a great fix, because this is the greatest advantage an H1B has over a US worker.
Also, any experience gained at your current job cannot be used to qualify you for a green card, which is the only way to stay and keep working after 6 years on H1B.
I don't know what you mean by this. The H1Bs I know absolutely are working on green cards as part of the H1B program.
Your first statement is not true. They have to pay them the same, not a princely sum by their native standards.
Your second statement is absolutely true. They can be treated like sweatshop employees where American workers can't (since they'll just leave).
Well then won't you be happy to find out that this law already exists. If my current company wanted to hire my friend who is H1B, they had to pay him the same as everyone else and then $5000 more for H1B sponsorship costs. Literally, they would have had to pay out the same for him as for me and I have tons of lead and architect experience and he did not.
Having done some hiring of H1B, I can confirm that this is the case. The company I am at now turned down an H1B friend of mine from my last company, because the sponsorship made him $5000 more than everyone else.
And who would have the moral fortitude to stand up to that kind of pressure because it's "the right thing"?
As far as I can see, only 2 types of people:
* Devout religious people (for religious reasons)
* Devout libertarians (for ideological reasons)
How many of you on here would elect either one of these candidates once you find out they are...
* Also anti-gay (religious) or pro-gay (libertarian)?
* Also anti-abortion (religious) or pro-abortion (libertarian)?
* Wants Creationist teaching (religious)?
* Pro-drug (libertarian)?
I can go on and on. The fact is, anyone who has the morals to stand up to them also has deep convictions as to what else should make up a better society. And the media (which is, of course, also the MAFIAA) is expert at finding these hot buttons and pushing them thereby ensuring that such a candidate never has a sniff of being elected by making them seem repugnant to the other side that has different morals.
My daughter also wanted to do art, but I noticed that she occasionally would redesign a label on a 7Up bottle and stuff like that. I am encouraging her to go into graphic design instead. She's good with computers and she'll make good money doing it. Nobody makes money on paintings until after they're dead.
It's easy to get a job in IT almost anywhere in the country. If you like English, try to find a job as a tech writer. Or write user manuals for a company that manufactures things. There are a lot of high-paying jobs out there compared to being a professor.
Academic departments at Universities are kingdoms held by powerful (in the University) people. They are NOT going to let that power go away easily no matter how much damage they are doing to generations of students. There is no logic or wisdom to a University's decisions, just placating a lot of fearful, powerful kings...
This is why the percentages at Universities still resemble ones that would have made sense at the turn of the last century...
An intelligent person comes to recognize that having a LITERATURE DEGREE isn't a route to financial security.
Wow. That's some insight.
(This reminds me of an interview I saw on NPR purporting to illustrate how "hard" times have gotten in Greece, that PhD's were waiting tables in restaurants and barely scraping by. Almost as an aside at the end of the interview, they asked him what his PhD was in - "Russian Literature". I almost crashed my car I was laughing so hard.)
That's unintentionally hilarious! Some of the most intelligent people can also be the least wise...
Then be a journalist, blogger, tech writer, document translator (if you know 2 languages)... How about a book or movie reviewer? A talent scout for a publishing company.
Just because you have a PhD, doesn't mean an instant $100K job. You have to start at the ground floor and show people that you can actually provide useful work that makes someone money somewhere.
Literature is not a field that will help you absorb the meaning of literary works and apply their lessons to your life through an understanding of human experience.
People are very bad at reading the wisdom of others and applying it to their own lives to their benefit... This is why pastors have congregations...
1. All banks can only pay out a fraction of deposits at any given time.
2. Some of that regulation is related to government money-laundering laws they agreed to follow, not their own rules.
For definitions of volatile meaning, "shooting through the stratosphere like a rocket, if you can handle the risk...".
Bitfloor was hacked as well. The guy is slowly attempting to pay back in coins, but is only at 1.7 % so far.
Interesting theory. They are paying out claims in dollars, though.
Bitfloor does as well. At least go to the sites and look at the login page. Jeez.
Good luck to them finding them all. It would be like Russia and China trying to destroy all Bibles. Didn't work.
Since they're all done strictly by number (and often a new number on each transaction), it's probably better than many methods...
Cypriot bank: The government takes 20% of your money because they screwed up.
Bitcoins: Your money tripled in the last month. If you trust your money to someone else's website for long periods (or indefinitely), you could lose it all (although Instawallet is paying out claims to people that lost money in cash (not bitcoins)).
In other words, cut off a pocket of the internet from the rest of the internet and get all the Bitcoin processors on there to agree quickly and then transfer the coins into dollars by fooling an exchange on the same subnet? Yes, it's possible. But if you ever reconnect to the world at large, your transaction would be considered invalid and the exchange would be out the cash. Of course, the exchange should know how many peers there are, and should be suspicious if that number drops to 1% and halt all transactions...