Don't EVER pay fees up front for prospective employment.
EVER.
Legitimate headhunters are paid by the EMPLOYERS for their services, not the prospective employees.
This is a simple, old-fashioned scam.
There is no "High-Tech Sweatshop" problem in the US.
I have seen this problem first hand having had to actually train a few Indian “consultants” in my company.
* In the USA, cost-cutting pressures have increased, so companies turned over management of tech systems and other back-office operations to outsourcing firms.
* A lot of these firms, in order to cut cost, hire smart college graduates from India and other countries into the U.S. on temporary visas such as the H-1B ( the Philippines is another country where outsourcing occurs ). Notice that most of these firms favor ENGLISH speaking countries.
* One important way outsourcers hold down costs is by keeping a lean workforce at each client site—then turning to smaller companies when they need to increase staff for specific projects, such as installing new software or building a new Web site.
These companies are known as “body shops” because of their role, and often rely heavily on foreign workers who come into the country on H-1Bs and other visas.
Unfortunately, this is where a lot of the shenanigans take place. A lot of these poor souls actually are here hoping to be able to eventually get permanent residency but are in effect, indentured servants who can’t move, have no say as to what they can do because their visas limit them to ONLY working for the firm that hired them.
A lot of American companies usually don’t know—and don’t press to find out—which body shops are tapped to support their tech operations.
They don’t care really. The important thing is the job is being done at a much lower cost than if they hired an American.
IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT THE BOTTOM LINE.
Related article:
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/10/02/businessweek-drops-the-ball-on-h-1b-story/
This has been going on since the Y2K era. It’s one of the things that made IT such a cutthroat business. With unemployment at todays levels there’s no way anyone can say we need H1B visas for entry level programming / data entry jobs other than to drive the wage scale down.
Converse Hi Topp tennis shoes are made in Viet Nam.
Factoid.
says so right on the sole.
huh....I’ve talked to programmers who I swore were calling me from a gas station...
No one makes them sign up to come to the US, and contrary to what the congress-idiots cite, there are plently of qualified American IT workers that could do the job. Companies would rather keep wages low by importing the H1Bs.
Sponsorship for the kind of work visa that allows foreign nationals to *(take)* professional-level *(jobs)* in the country.