Then they haven’t kept their skills current or they have other issues. If they are current in any of these areas, they can write their own ticket:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2844020/10-hottest-it-skills-for-2015.html
There’s a reason IT unemployment is under 3%—and 3% is considered as low as unemployment, in practicality, can go, given the friction of job change in high-demand environments.
It may well be in IT, but IT has such a wretched reputation a lot of people are just steering clear. Where I worked before they were in and out like they were on a conveyor belt, the industry itself needs to put some effort into addressing its own issues. All the scholarships are specifically for people who are not white and they’ve scared off the women who actually would be their best bet.
H1b should have served as a stopgap while they reconfigured, instead they are trying to make it a way of life.
The deal with this is also that companies don’t have to pay the taxes on foreign workers that they do on domestic workers, so you have companies like Disney now dumping American workers and making the outgoing American workers train their foreign replacements.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2844020/10-hottest-it-skills-for-2015.html
I'm hard pressed to think of an area of IT that's NOT on this list - and #1 and #3 are where lots of H-1B displacement is happening.