I cannot believe the insanity here. This is simply another plea by businesses to get “ more qualified” foreigners! I call bs! They are saying they don’t have enough engineers... Um not likely! I have spoken to s handful of ...unemployed engineers. They are competing with the insanely high costs of employing Americans. My oldest is an MP and my youngest works at walmart. I am darn proud of them both for being responsible adults... Please stop categorizing the youth in such denegrating terms. You don’t hear about them cuz they are working and part of the 53 percent.
I've told this story here before... 6 years ago, when I was desperately looking for a job, I went to a "headhunter" who told me that they had a local job that required very specific technical certifications (in Novell networking). I got pretty excited because at the time I had nearly every certification that Novell had. The requirement was expertise in 10 or so different Novell products. Interestingly enough, I was authorized by Novell to TEACH every one of the products listed. I was never presented to the company for an interview, and found a job on my own (at a huge pay cut from my previous job).
Years later, I learned that the company in question had completely switched from Novell to Microsoft in part, due to the "Novell expert" placed by the headhunter... It turned out that the company was one that I had supported years earlier, had set up their initial Novell networks, and trained most of their in-house network support. The guys I spoke with were livid! The headhunter had placed a guy from India who didn't know much about any of the products they used, and practically nobody at the company could understand him. He had come over on an H1-B visa, but only lasted at this company for about 8 months. The guy I was speaking with told me that had they known I was available, they would probably still be using Novell and would have hired me in a second.
Mark