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Oh please. They game competitive wages, make the position ridiculous in terms of requirements, or give it abusive attributes nobody with self respect and freedo
by Glyptodon 7y ago
Oh please. They game competitive wages, make the position ridiculous in terms of requirements, or give it abusive attributes nobody with self respect and freedom would accept, write descriptions to match specific people, compare to lowest common denominator, and "advertise" the positions in places nobody will look, etc.
Let me give you an example: A university near me hires postdocs on H1B despite there being an absolute glut of postdoctoral researchers available. They count some of the University benefits as contributing to the salary despite not being part of pay, and make the job requirements list items impossible to fulfill unless you've already done work with whichever researcher is hiring by making "experience" with their one off research projects or very narrow (but not hard to understand) areas of expertise a requirement.
The whole thing is an absolute joke and is used to import workers by the bucket load.
Often times entire labs will be from the same country as a researcher despite them mostly doing lab grunt work undergrads could be trained to do in a semester or less.
Mind you I'm not against foreign workers, but the H1B program is an indentured servant sham.
It's easy to fix, though. Accept H1 apps based on compensation: high pay to low, no lottery, and grant green cards after 18 months work.
- vsskanth 7y ago>They count some of the University benefits as contributing to the salary This is not true and simply can't happen. Every single H1B filing data is online and public so if you want to refute me you are free to post the exact filing. >make the job requirements list items impossible to fulfill unless you've already done work with whichever researcher is hiring by making "experience" with their one off research projects or very narrow (but not hard to understand) areas of expertise a requirement. Also not true since there is no job posting requirement for H1Bs. Only for EB2/3 green cards. Universities generally don't sponsor green cards unless it's EB1B so this can't happen either. I agree with your last suggestion though.
- Frost1x 7y agoAdvertising the position for certain time periods is typically a requirement related to using federal funding obtained through grants for paying personnel from certain agencies or a general university policy. The process OP described is extremely common when groups already decided who they want to hire, but have to appear above board. Your resume essentially becomes the job posting making it nearly impossible for someone to compete (assuming you have niche skills/experience which is likely). I worked in academic research for over a decade and have received a raise using the exact process OP described (I was/always have been a full citizen). I've also seen it used by other collaborating groups.
- Glyptodon 7y agoAnother poster has a picture of a posting for an H1 job that pays $13/hr for someone with a doctorate in a category for which a) the wage is a joke (even a few years ago postdoc average would be $35k+, I think, currently I think it's low 40s), and b) there's no shortage of Americans (well known glut of available postdocs). I think that's really all that needs to be said.
- vsskanth 7y agoI just saw that picture. It's an actual LCA approval. Never knew you could get an H1B approved for those rates. I thought the minimum was $60k. I stand corrected, please accept my apologies.