On 2/9/2013 8:03 AM, Wayne Johnson wrote:: > A few years ago, I was looking for a new position at the MN Job Corps. > I found several that sounded interesting so I printed them out and took > them to the advisor. He told me that he "could just tell", because of > the very specific job requirements, that these were written by a company > that already had a H-1B candidate and had written them so they could say > that they couldn't find anyone else with these specific requirements. He > said it happens all the time. > > I still see these pop up in the jobs lists. A similar situation happened to me about 12 years ago @ the U of M. I applied for a job, had 3 interviews, thought it was a slam dunk, and then nothing. I had a friend who worked in the department so I asked her what happened. She said that even though I was the most qualified for the job, and they liked me a lot, they ended up with someone else (who had almost zero experience). She explained that they would have had to fill out a lot of extra paperwork for the powers that be explaining (justifying) why on earth they would have hired a white American male with skills versus a poor minority woman with none. For them it was the path of least resistance to fill the position based on the rules of the game over there & I get that. At that time this really made me mad, but I ended up with a much better job in the end (where I still work today) so it was a story with a happy ending. As for the work visa issue I feel this is an issue that is not simply explained without looking at the whole picture and then following the money ;) I have mixed opinions on this, mostly against it. One thing to consider though (there is always a back side on every coin). I graduated High School in 1990. For a kid going to college then (be it a huge University all they way down to a 2 year tech school) you could not take any sort of Computer Science (Computer anything really) program without having at least a couple required COBOL classes. Over time they stopped teaching this at schools, and now seems to be only offered by specialized training centers. It's now 2013, and almost all the large corporation who back in the day ran Big Blue Iron still do (surprise!). Banks, Insurance companies, Utilities, etc. Although there are still COBOL programers in America (my wife is one of them), they are starting to get long in the tooth & retiring. Basically a dying bread. Kids don't learn this anymore, and corporation with that much invested in big iron have an issue. Do they request schools start offering COBOL again, and if they did would schools listen? Probably not. If they listened would kids want to spend there precious dollars on these classes of study? Probably not. I want to make video games, and be rich! Do corporations completely migrate their infrastructure away from mainframes? You're Fired!