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I have recently received a couple of emails from red-dot Indians looking for AFS/CL3 experience. Here’s what they sent:

Hello,
Hope you are doing good. This is Akash Jangwal from Stellar Consulting.

We have an excellent long-term contractual opportunity from UST, please let me know if you are interested with the below requirement and share the updated resume.

AFS AND CLE AND Lending

Job Title: AFS CL3 SME / Consultant
Location: Cleveland, OH - Onsite Preferred, (open to remote – if remote, travel as needed (minimal travel and would need to be in EST)

Must have:
• 3-5 years of experience in AFS CL3
• 5-7 years of commercial lending experience
Primary Responsibilities:
• Provides subject matter expertise in the AFS CL3 application. Assists client in implementing, upgrading, or migrating from AFS CL3 application.

• Utilizes professional expertise to perform analysis, and/or development activities with technology. Requires demonstrated subject matter expertise in the specified application.
• Serve as the subject-matter-expert on the AFS CL3 (mainframe platform) commercial loan application.
• Strong knowledge and technical understanding of AFS CL3 system with implementation/upgrade experience.
• Consult on large project initiatives for commercial loan system implementation, upgrade, and data migration effort from AFS CL3 to AFS vision or Loan IQ.
• Understand accounting process of AFS CL3 and be able to define the approach to handle account balances of CL3 accounts during platform migration.
• Lead the change management of commercial loan servicing data and processes.
• Ensure execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
Best Regards,
Akash Jangwal

My response:

Permit me to clarify a couple of points:
1. If you had actually read my resume, you would have realized that my AFS / CL3 experience is very out of date. I have not worked with this system for decades. This tells me that you aren’t really paying attention – you’re just key word searching and hoping to get a hit. I find this lazy and careless approach to recruiting to be unprofessional and insulting.

2. Wild horses and the French Foreign Legion could not drag me to an urban shithole like Cleveland Ohio. Quality of life means something, and that is why I moved to northern Idaho over 20 years ago.

While I am open to remote work, I will not entertain a job posting reference from you under any circumstances.

Regards,

Oh boy, how true. All these Job sites just looks for key words and send out an email in hopes of getting a hit.

A lot of the Recruiting companies run by Indians need to contact Americans for open positions knowing that they would either never take the job based on the unrelated qualifications -or- offer a salary so low anyone in their right mind would refuse.

Then, when no Americans take them up on the offer, they can go to the gov’t and cry that there are not enough Americans to take the jobs and they can get the H1B visa candidates into the country from India for pennies on the dollar ... basically bring them over as indentured servants.