H1-B Blues ... Do You Know The Tune ?

Hello All,
Just returned from a visit to Oregon where I learned that the Great Recession has consumed a few unemployed souls there as well as the California job market scene. That experience encouraged me to get back to the blog sphere and reference another blog that seems to know the same H1-B song that I have been singing. In this case, a computer science professor, "Norm Matloff " of the University of California, Davis, adds his special credentials plus refined viewpoint that harmonizes with my own words.

In his blog, Norm Matloff points out some aspects of the H1B visa program that was instructive to me. Certainly I have already suggested that the Visa Quota program was "bad" for Americans, but it had not occurred to me that the program was also bad for foreigners who learned that lower wages were more important to companies than "high quality and technological prowess" (quoting Norm here).

So one conclusion that makes me wonder ... if companies have focused on lower wages as a basis for measuring job requirements .... then how does "high quality" job skills get a foot in the door ?

OK, here's the referenced website blog:

http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-h1-b-blues/

Comments out there? Later