Demand for H1-B visa continues to rise

Hi Everyone,
I've been somewhat busy and not attending to this blog message as our "jobless recovery" unfolds. As we all know, the concept of a jobless recovery is based on the idea that employers will not initiate any hiring until the current employed work force reaches a point where they are either burnt out and quit or have been pushed to their peak productive ability. Unfortunately, the greed factor is the true master of both the employer and the employee here in America.

Today's discussion is focused on this given blog's title. I found this title on "The Economic Times" India website at " http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5300526.cms ". The following comments from that website caught my interest and maybe, you too, will roll your eyes. The comments go as follows:
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Latest figures released by the US Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS) show an increase in the number of people applying for H-1B visas in the last two months.

As a result of which, till November 27, the USCIS had received about 58,900 H-1B petitions. This is still over 6,000 short of the Congressionally-mandated cap of 65,000 H-1B visas
in the general category.
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Now I would like to suggest that as our economy "recovers", who will get the good jobs .... Americans or ..... Outsourced resources? My suspicion is that GREED will push employers to hire those unfilled 6000 H1-B resources before Americans. As I have stated before in this blog, I believe that corporate America should have income incentives that would encourage the hiring and training of Americans rather than the past focus on cheap outsourced resources. In that regard, I invite your feedback on the following statements of belief:

1. I believe that President Obama's promise to tax American companies that hire outsouced resourses will take a big bite out of the outsourced hiring addiction.

2. I believe that President Obama's promise to give tax breaks for American companies that hire Americans will have a dramatic effect on American employment as the Great Recession continues to end.

3. I believe that the so called *"Stimulus money" to bail out dysfunctional banks and financial institutions should, in fact, be made available to help train countless young Americans that have been pushed out of the job market for lack of skill or training.

* More on where stimulus money goes, refer to URL "http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx")

Feedback appreciated on your point of view on these topics discussed here.
That's it for now. Take care

Cisco lays off 600 to 700 workers at headquarters

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