Who says americans aren't smart?

[W1nTry]

Smart enough to know to look outside the US for IT workers :p

How US tech firms place job ads no-one will apply for

So they can hire cheap foreign workers

By INQUIRER newsdesk: Friday 22 June 2007, 15:14
US AMERICANS ARE EXPENSIVE. They eat more food, use more petrol and create more greenhouse gas than the rest of us. So when they go to work they need a hefty salary.

Not so Indians or Chinese, or Filipinos. Or Cubans or Iraqis come to that. You can get three or four of most of these for what you might have to pay an American. This is why tech firms are keen to ship workers into the States to get them to work for them, rather than some equally-qualified but expensive hamburger-muncher from down the road.

But immigration laws pertaining to the hiring of foreign workers in the States are tight. And firms have to prove that they can't find anyone in their back yard to do the jobs they need to fill, before casting their gaze abroad.

This is why U.S. firms hire consultants to publish classified job ads in local U.S. papers, with goal of not finding any applicants.

At least that's what a report on the Information Clearing House" alleges.

Here, you'll find a nice little video in which immigration attorneys from a firm, Cohen & Grigsby, explain how they help employers post job ads that no-one will apply for so that the firms can then use these in evidence when helping bring in workers from abroad.

"Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week," it claims. µ

[daniboy79]

i have first hand experience with foreign employment and american jobs

the line of work that i'm into can pay upwards of $125US/HR and that's because most Americans aren't interested in Technician type work, they prefer the Jobs that require wearing Suits.

[Saxito Pau]

Which american company won't cut costs?

[W1nTry]

Hmm apparently $HIT has hit the fan over this whole issue, I was leaving meh house for the gym this evening and I see on msnbc they talking about the youtube video that shows ppl discussing this whole matter... hmm interesting and SO FUNNY! americans think they're all that yet america is made up of migrants really. The ONLY ppl that can lay claim to the land, they put onto reservations in the desert. Otherwise its Europeans, mexicans, Trinis, Asian, etc. America wouldn't be where it was today if not for all the aliens LOL yet they treat the whole rest of the 'alien' world like inferiors... life is a funny paradox is it not?

[Beomagi]

To be frank, the term American is used a little loosely there.

Here's the breakdown of just the managers at my workplace. Irish, Indian, black/vietnamise mix, romanian, chinese.
It's a really diverse bunch. not just the managers, but everyone there.

We work here, we live here, we see our futures here. We're American. Just not what's classically accepted as say, news anchorman material

Maybe it's New York and Jersey, but I've never felt like I was being considered inferior through my look, or accent, nor have I seen another put in that situation.

[W1nTry]

You need to visit the middle states...'red neck' country