I worked 23 years as an SAP Functional Analyst/Consultant.
You don’t understand the issue.
There is not a ‘shortage’. Corporate America has a perceived dependency on tech labor as it is a drug much like artificially low interest rates.
Like capital, when labor is artificially flooded, it causes labor rates to go down like what has happened in real income for workers in the IT industry.
Once the companies get dependent, they start to ALLOCATE not only artificially cheap capital, but also artificially cheap labor.
What ends up is not a proper prioritizing of labor resources and capital, but an oversubsidizing of many tech projects that really should have not been pursued due to to low a return on investment.
Corporate America REALLY thinks they MUST have slave cheap labor in their IT depts. (plus all the other industries that use H1-B) to survive because they are pursuing so many questionable projects when really they are wasting money and then complaining about a non-existent labor shortage.
If the H1-B program ended tomorrow, and the existing H1-B visa workers were laid off and they returned to mostly India but some other countries, then there would be BETTER decision-making and far less corruption and kickback arrangments, etc. that are creating lots of waste. I would come out of retirement to train US citizens on the areas of SAP I have experience with and we would fill the labor gap. Yes, the US worker would be paid more, but the labor cost would be allowed to settle and be a TRUE cost of labor as opposed to a subsidized system of mis-allocation of precious labor.
Before I retired, we had several US citizens that would have made excellent SAP Functional Business Analysts. However, they never got the chance due to Indians via H1-B. Now they talk about diversity in their IT group but it is silly because everybody knows it is an Indian/Hindu/H1-B shop and diversity goes WAY DOWN with H1-B.
America First.
Always.
If these companies need high tech employees then they should be required to sponsor American students right after high school, in fact they should recruit seniors and provide their college education in return for employment contracts.
No more cheap labor from outside our country.
>> You don’t understand the issue.
Definitely aware of the outsourcing and hiring of cheaper, temporary labor. I’m also well aware of oversees Blue Chip co-locations.
I’ve worked directly with non-US techies in firmware, today’s Cloud, and virtually every related technology in between.
To say the availability of skilled domestic IT personnel was readily available over the last 20 years is a fallacy. The reason many don’t agree is likely related to their inability to discern competent IT personnel.
If you did your stint with SAP America & survived McDermott, I’m impressed.