Bill Gates & H1B Visa Fraud
Thursday, Microsoft reported the slowest sales growth in five years. But that's not the big story, what Bill Gates is saying is.
During a visit to lobby personally for changes in federal policy, the world's richest executive said the government should eliminate the limit of 65,000 for overseas workers who can be hired each year by U.S. firms under specialty H-1B visas aimed at drawing engineers, scientists, architects and doctors to the United States.
``The whole idea of the H-1B visa thing is, don't let too many smart people come into the country, I'd certainly get rid of the H-1B visa cap,''
For years, technology executives like Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, have made the bogus assertion that they are unable to find qualified U.S. workers, a contention disputed by U.S. labor groups and unemployed computer engineers.
It seems that Gates has friends at Morgan Stanley as witnessed by Jeffrey Matsu’s recent missive High Skilled Workers and the Global Labor Arbitrage .
From his missive: Valid for three years and renewable for another three, the H-1b visa is intended to help employers find "temporary workers of distinguished merit and ability" with expertise not readily available among Americans.
I will hang my hat on the last phrase, "with expertise not readily available among Americans" use Matsu’s CIS data, and discuss the 3D best hiring practices (deceptive, dishonest and deceitful) that high tech employers are using to abuse the system.
The skills necessary are readily available, if the employers would make an honest effort to look. Instead they opt for the quick and easy way out. The common practice of writing a detailed job description and running an ad is employed.
The job description is written subjectively, so as to potentially preclude every single human on the planet. The ads are run as a matter of course. As a requirement, some respondents actually get interviewed.
And I am sure many of you out there have been on one of these interviews. The employer looks for ways to eliminate rather than qualify the candidate.
Predictably, the result of the search is nil. After going through the motions, the employer can say, we seeketh but cannot find. I have heard that the jerry-mandering goes so far as to rewrite the job specs, after the domestic search is done.
At this point, the employer files for an H1B and magically there appears a foreign candidate who subjectively meets the requirements. The truth is the H1B candidate was brokered to the employer by an H1B headhunter, long before the process even began.
The H1B visa program has merit and good intention. But as with most things in the corporate world, it has been perverted, tainted and severely abused for the purposes of convenience and greed.
I am really POed, because I thought the H1B issue went down the tubes in 2000 along with the dot-con crash.
Back to the data, only 12% of the total of H1B’s have a Piled High & Deep (PHD); 31% have a Master Bullshit Artist (MBA) or Master Scammer (MS); 50% have a Bull Shit Degree (BS). What the other 7% are, I have no clue.
Government figures show that 5.7 % of information technology employees were out of work last year vs. 5.5 % of all workers. Empirically, there are way too many un and under employed PHD, MS and BS degrees in this country to justify looking anywhere else.
I know quite a few of them and their employment horror stories could fill all the blogs in the blogosphere. More in Part II.
During a visit to lobby personally for changes in federal policy, the world's richest executive said the government should eliminate the limit of 65,000 for overseas workers who can be hired each year by U.S. firms under specialty H-1B visas aimed at drawing engineers, scientists, architects and doctors to the United States.
``The whole idea of the H-1B visa thing is, don't let too many smart people come into the country, I'd certainly get rid of the H-1B visa cap,''
For years, technology executives like Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, have made the bogus assertion that they are unable to find qualified U.S. workers, a contention disputed by U.S. labor groups and unemployed computer engineers.
It seems that Gates has friends at Morgan Stanley as witnessed by Jeffrey Matsu’s recent missive High Skilled Workers and the Global Labor Arbitrage .
From his missive: Valid for three years and renewable for another three, the H-1b visa is intended to help employers find "temporary workers of distinguished merit and ability" with expertise not readily available among Americans.
I will hang my hat on the last phrase, "with expertise not readily available among Americans" use Matsu’s CIS data, and discuss the 3D best hiring practices (deceptive, dishonest and deceitful) that high tech employers are using to abuse the system.
The skills necessary are readily available, if the employers would make an honest effort to look. Instead they opt for the quick and easy way out. The common practice of writing a detailed job description and running an ad is employed.
The job description is written subjectively, so as to potentially preclude every single human on the planet. The ads are run as a matter of course. As a requirement, some respondents actually get interviewed.
And I am sure many of you out there have been on one of these interviews. The employer looks for ways to eliminate rather than qualify the candidate.
Predictably, the result of the search is nil. After going through the motions, the employer can say, we seeketh but cannot find. I have heard that the jerry-mandering goes so far as to rewrite the job specs, after the domestic search is done.
At this point, the employer files for an H1B and magically there appears a foreign candidate who subjectively meets the requirements. The truth is the H1B candidate was brokered to the employer by an H1B headhunter, long before the process even began.
The H1B visa program has merit and good intention. But as with most things in the corporate world, it has been perverted, tainted and severely abused for the purposes of convenience and greed.
I am really POed, because I thought the H1B issue went down the tubes in 2000 along with the dot-con crash.
Back to the data, only 12% of the total of H1B’s have a Piled High & Deep (PHD); 31% have a Master Bullshit Artist (MBA) or Master Scammer (MS); 50% have a Bull Shit Degree (BS). What the other 7% are, I have no clue.
Government figures show that 5.7 % of information technology employees were out of work last year vs. 5.5 % of all workers. Empirically, there are way too many un and under employed PHD, MS and BS degrees in this country to justify looking anywhere else.
I know quite a few of them and their employment horror stories could fill all the blogs in the blogosphere. More in Part II.
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