Hello all,
Given this most recent notice of Friday's Cisco System's layoff, I have no idea on how many American workers or (if) H1B workers were affected but here's the coverage on washingtonpost.com:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071702594.html
However, I was curious to see if there were still any outstanding H1B openings listed at the website "Myvisajobs.com" that I mentioned before in a previous blog. Just out of curiosity I referenced that site to take a look. Now folks, maybe Cisco just has not removed H1B requests from the myvisajobs.com site yet ... but ... what I found makes me wonder. Take a look for yourself:
http://myvisajobs.com/H1B_Visas.aspx?Z=94087&E=cisco&R=100&OG=All&SO=all&Y=All
Anyway, I will be curious if the Cisco H1B (San Jose, Calif) request will be removed soon or... will remain active.
While we're on the subject of Friday's Cisco layoff notice, I invite you to check another blog with an interesting name "LayoffBlog.com" discussing the H1B subject.
http://layoffblog.com/2009/07/16/cisco-lays-off-several-hundred-workers/
Some pretty good responses to that blog piece that you might find interesting. Meantime, as the Great Recession continues to devour American workers, let's not forget to buckle up and prepare for a rough economic ride in the months to come.
Meantime, as always, your comments are invited. Cheers
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
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
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
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