Wilder today posts about H1-B abuse and says:
But in some tiny newspaper in the middle of BFE, the company puts out a want ad. This ad isn’t meant to be seen by anyone nationwide, rather, its sole purpose is to be “proof” that the company looked for an American. The idea is that only their preferred Indian candidate will know about the opening and the very specific procedures and job code to apply. Then, bang, the company has proof that no qualified American exists and they can hire Poojeeta Ramdash whose uncle runs the division.
Jeez, does that explain the job posting for an SDET I saw in the Stone County Republican?
The Jack Henry world headquarters is not in Stone County; it’s in Monett, which straddles the Barry and Lawrence County line. I emailed the recruiter and never heard back. Perhaps part of the plan.
This has been a big topic of discussion on twitter lately. Bob Cringely was writing about it as far back as 2012.
Here’s my answer to a question about the “talent shortage” back in 2018: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/124481/95312
I have known about the gaming of it for some time, but I’ve really had some incidents recently that drove it home.
In June, I was on a screener with the low-level HR drone who had two questions first before we proceeded: 1) If I was actually a citizen, and 2) whether I would be comfortable with the relatively low salary they were offering. When I said, eh, okay, she proceeded to tell me that this was part of a completely different process and that she had to submit my information to the legal team before the hiring team. Clearly, she did not know not to tell me that they were checking the boxes to qualify for the need for an H1-B candidate and I was not a real candidate for the position.
Secondly, I got an email response to an application with two questions: 1) Are you really a US Citizen, and 2) When can we schedule an interview? which was followed by another email with 11 position related questions. And then I got another copy of email #1 and, when I responded politely, another copy of email #2. Which might indicate someone was not paying attention and was just collecting US citizens who did not qualify.
So I saw this ad after having seen the posting on the company Web site (my beautiful wife passed it to me), and I sent an email to the recruiter without the required subject line. I would have expected some sort of response, but I received none, so I presume the worst.
Meh, maybe ignoring candidates is what they teach in HR school now. I get response to maybe 10% of my over-the-transom/job board applications, and most of them are just someone hitting the “No” button in some Applicant Tracking System.