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You don't know diddley about this! Americans are getting the jobs,H1B workers ARE needed and there are many Irish and South African IT H1Bs here doing better work than Americans. But all you ever hear the whiners on FR talking about,are Indians.

I'm telling you,with EXPERTS in the field,which you certainly are NOT,that there are so many IT jobs out there,right now,this very minute,and yes, headhunters ARE contacting people listed on MONSTER,that they are going begging. Anyone,ANYONE,in the IT field,who hasn't been able to get a job,this year,can only blame themselves.

Anyone,ANYONE,in the IT field,who hasn't been able to get a job,this year,can only blame themselves.

There are many more IT jobs available than there were a year ago, especially in blue state urban areas. Unfortunately, the salaries offered usually don't seem to be commensurate with the years of experience demanded and the housing costs in those areas. It's as if, having been burned by high salaries during the dot-com boom erea, employers are determined to get their own back by keeping salary levels for "those damned computer people" suppressed now.

As a result, blue state employers aren't going to have much luck luring talent away from lower cost areas of the country. Thus the perceived shortage and the demand for more H1Bs. The unemployed and desperate will be able to find jobs - but the still-employed (and probably much more talented) potential job-changer is going to think long and hard before making a move.