[TriLUG] Fraud in the job market

[Matt Pusateri]

A very fine line, but a lot of ads are also written in a way that favors 
the qualifications of the immigrant even if that may not be the actual 
job they do.  Plus another tactic is to publish the ad in a trade 
journal where not as many people will see it, so there will be less 
applicants.  Trade journals work well for low paying positions, because 
most of the time only the higher management people read the trade journals.

H1B visas are a sham, there's no shortage of qualified american workers 
as we know.  There is a shortage of companies that are willing to pay us 
what we are worth.  Also it's like indentured servitude once the visa 
gets issued, since the employee has a hard time leaving for another 
job.  The company doesn't have to pay them as much and doesn't have to 
promote them as much either.  So they can keep them deadlocked into a 
job position where the salary favors the employee.  

I guess the saying is true "The world needs brick layers"  Hard to 
outsource that job overseas :)  But that's another whole thread 
hopefully no one will comment on :)

Matt P.


Andrew Perrin wrote:
> A highly-skilled programmer friend Of a Certain Age (tm) who has had lots 
> of trouble finding work sent me the link below, which is to a YouTube 
> video that, on its face, is quite disturbing. I take no official position 
> on the issue, but suspect it will be of interest to TriLUG members and so 
> pass it along.
>
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17909.htm
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> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
> New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
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