"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
Talk about thinking outside the box! That ranks right up with the unusual idea of having a company set up a booth at a career fair to recruit recent college graduates!One option that eliminates the need to work with immigration lawyers is rooting out potential candidates for the open position already on staff. For many hiring and IT managers, training in house technical employees on skills that are considered critical going forward is a better option that [sic] looking outside the company for talent.
"Managers can look for internal talent that may need a little more training or need to work in a different style," says Albert Porco, CIO at Kings County Medical Center in New York. "There are times when the most talented person is two or three levels down in the organization. Also at times, you don't need superstars, you need staff that can get the job done."
I can write an entire post about this statement alone, but notice how the concept of hiring IT staff that have already reached "senior" status is completely missing.Kamal Jain, Director of Operations and Customer Service at Auraria Networks in Boxborough, Mass., agrees saying if IT hiring managers exhaust options outside of the company, then they need to look at the pool of talent already producing at the company.
"Consider career-changers who have the right attitude, intelligence, demeanor, etc. to fit your needs and then take some chances on training and development," Jain says. "It’s not a good way to get senior people, but it can bring in a great pool of talent which can free up enough experienced people to allow them to grow into the senior roles you may need filled."
A company willing to look at a candidate who is not a 100% match for the position? I thought I'd never see that happening again.Digitas' Russell says that her team and the company’s management is using a new mantra when it comes to hiring external or internal candidates that involves considering a broader range of qualified candidates.
"Management and recruiting is pushing people to consider what could be trained. If a candidate has 80% of the skills needed, we can hire them and we can teach the other 20% of skills," she says.
The H-1B visa program was originally created to assist American employers who were having trouble finding American high-tech workers for their businesses. It allowed a fixed number of foreign workers come to the United States to "temporarily" fill those positions while the American companies and the federal government invested time and money in upgrading the training of American workers to meet the new skill levels required.Here's how the H-1B program really works:
The H-1B work visa program was supposed to be used to bolster the U.S. economy by helping American-owned companies. Under the program, American companies can use the speciality visa to hire foreign software programmers or computer scientists with rare skills in order to encourage innovation and improving competitiveness. Instead, foreign companies such as Infosys and Wipro are using our own government program to undermine the American economy by wiping out American jobs. These foreign-owned companies are bringing low-cost workers into the U.S., training them in the offices of American business clients, and then rotating them back home after a year or two so they can provide low cost, out-sourced tech services that causes American IT workers to lose their jobs. How is this helping American workers and American businesses?Notice how Wallace's story can only be printed in a media outlet that hardly anyone has ever heard of (as TooTruthy points out in the end of her blog post).
Labels: Bill Gates, H-1Bs, outsourcing
I prefer to look at it as an issue that concerns people in all parts of the political spectrum.
When it comes to H-1B visas, I oppose any legislation that makes it LEGAL to discriminate against smart, educated citizens who have invested heavily in their educations but are systematically denied their right (got that, Carly FEE-WHORE-A-REENA)to work and good compensation.
CC! And yes, Phyllis Schlaffly, Dobbs and Buchanan all have it down but a curious mix on the Left has been oddly silent. (Note with Sirota and Tasini, you don't find anything about H-1B but plenty about CAFTA. Well CAFTA does not affect white collar jobs. Must be some combination of the Kool-Aid, the Kool-Aid stand manufacturers, and how much $$$ mixed into it to not blow the whistle on the H-1B gatekeepers?