Earlier this month, Cisco CEO John Chambers stated that Cisco needed to expand its H-1B status capability.
Several days later the U.S. Department of Homeland Security came to the aid of Cisco in an unusual and controversial ruling, that immediately and automatically extended the period of stay and work authorization for all F-1 students with pending H-1B petitions (without Congressional approval or public comment).
Remarkably this week at their Channel Partner Summit meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Cisco issued a press release with regard to helping preempt a skills shortage among Cisco channel partners worldwide.
Linked from the press release is a presentation by Celia Harper Guerra - Director of Worldwide Partner Talent at Cisco (see below).
Slide number seven of Guerra's presentation shows that Cisco receives 20,000 CV/Resumes per month (i.e. 240,000 per year).
Additionally, Cisco has 200,000 active registered graduates of the Cisco Networking Academy that are now part of the Cisco Career Connections web site.
Furthermore, Cisco is now pressuring their Channel Partners to accept the idea of paying third party recruiting firms (anointed by Cisco of course) who will only charge a discounted rate of 18% of a placed candidate's first year salary.
Why yours truly thinks the Cisco talent shortage is balderdash:
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Cisco competes with its channel partners (as well as big enterprise/service provider customers) for the exact same Cisco certified network engineering talent. |
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Cisco channel partners are competing with each other (as well as with Cisco itself and big enterprise/service provider customers) for the exact same Cisco certified network engineering talent. |
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If Cisco can't develop talent from 20,000 CV/Resumes per month, the problem is most certainly not a talent shortage. |
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With Cisco in total control over talent, how can that be favorable to either the individuals (who are the talent) or its channel partners? |
Cisco Worldwide Partner Talent Presentation:
What do YOU think, is the Cisco talent shortage balderdash?
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CISCO H1-B crisis
A wise man told me a long time back that if you preface the word "cheap" to whatever skill is in short supply, then the shortage makes sense.
These URLs, from respected sources, show H-1b damages the U.S.
It is a fact that the h-1b Visa is being used to hire the cheapest workers, don't believe me, read the words of various recuiters, who have publicy posted to the web (and said they hired h-1b workers because they are cheap):
http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1974
http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/6482
Most h-1b visas are wasted on starting-level IT jobs:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back407.html
Green cards are being issued to people without even trying to find a U.S. citizen. I have seen this first hand, where Green cards were issued to people in Software Quality assurance (jobs a game tester could do). But if you don't believe me, see the video by the immigration attorneys used by the client of "Compete America":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
A report from the National Accounting Office of the United Stated has found that people on h-1b Visas are regularly being paid 20% less than their U.S. Citizen counterparts.
The h-1b program is being used to out-source U.S. jobs:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/12/business/visa.php?page=2
There is no shortage of qualified technology worker, just a shortage of technology workers are the low-low prices.
With rent in Silicon Valley at typically at 2000$/mth how can a Technology worker live on less than 40k a year, yet many h-1b visas are issued for far less than this.
http://www.bendweekly.com/Opinion/4670.html
Check out the following:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2007/db20070208_553356.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17048048/
The typical U.S. citizen is being saddled with 9 trillion dollars in National debt, by the Bush Administration.
Typical U.S. citizen is born with more cost in debt service per year than the wages of your typical Indian programmer.
Gasoline is prices are going the roof. Because of Corporate lobbying groups. Hey I am spending more driving to work, now, than the average Indian worker.
And the lobbying group "Compete America" is crass euphemism (double-speak) for the continuing fire sale that is destroying the U.S. economy.
http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1974
You would consider it
You would consider it balderdash if you are not out there trying to attract and retain good talent. There are thousands of people in the pool, but very few good ones. The truly good ones are typical in a good position making good money.
If it's such a sweet deal, then why don't YOU do it?
You always hear of recruiters whining about how much good tech workers make, and how that talent is soooo far and few between
But what you never ever hear of, is recruiters retaining themselves for these skills. Think of it - they know exactly what to train for, and who to market themselves to, yet, they never ever go for it themselves.
Reason? Because they are lying. They know they cant really act on what they say, because it's FALSE.
Actions (or inactions) speak louder than words. And the fact that recruiters never train themselves for tech says it all.
Is this related to this
Is this related to this blog?
Attract and retain good talent?
Give me a break!
Yours truly actually had the Cisco recruiter responsible for hiring CCIEs to fill the difficult and in-demand Cisco High Touch Technical Support Engineer Job Openings, instruct yours truly not to send the CV/Resumes of qualified CCIEs via email.
Instead the qualified CCIEs were instructed to apply online like they were nothing more than a commodity item.
Only a week before, this same Cisco recruiter complained on a Cisco CCIE Forum that CCIEs never emailed their CV/Resumes to Cisco for employment consideration.
And that is why yours truly contacted the Cisco recruiter.
We have a lot of Cisco CCIE CV/Resumes.
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com
No...no break. I really
No...no break.
I really don't care if you have thousands of CCIE resumes. Notice what I said...good.
Your resume bank doesn't nothing to qualify what good and bad is. Thanks.
Likewise, Cisco and their channel partner job openings
Likewise, Cisco and their channel partner job openings say nothing of how good the employers are to work for.
After all, good employees will not work for bad employers.
Ask yourself, would you work as an employee for you?
If not, why would anyone else!
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com
The employers typically
The employers typically employ smoke and mirrors. But, there are some good ones out there.
Good employees do work for bad companies...all the time. Even entertaining that idea makes me wonder if you've ever come in contact with any good people.
I have. And would. And, I was able to attract truly good people. Not some $100k+/yr CCIEs that can barely spell OSPF.
I'm not sure you are driving down the right road here. But, I'm willing to see where you are going.
Agitated by highly paid CCIEs
Interesting that you appear to be agitated by highly paid CCIEs.
2008 Cisco Salary Rates
2 Questions:
1. Are highly paid CCIEs agitated by your pay?
2. What else about a highly paid CCIE bugs you?
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com