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SD Unemployment Rises to 10.3%
Actually it's 100% for each and every unemployed!— March 12, 2011 6:44 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Oh, my bad, I guess writing skill isn't important to get a job at Qualcomm, including the one of your position, then? Gee, I always see, "excellent oral and written communication", as one of the key requirements for ANY job these days, though... Again, I rest may case.— March 12, 2011 2:46 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Yup, I'm with you all the way, SurfPuppy! Obama is turning out to be one, big, cruel joke of FALSE hope and FALSE change, after eight, nightmarish years of Bush that finally culminated with the Great Recession - except this ain't no joke but a harsh and painful REALITY.— March 12, 2011 2:36 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Thanks!— March 12, 2011 2:30 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Wow, man, if you really are a naturalized U.S. citizen who landed a job as a hiring manager at Qualcomm, with so many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors displayed in your post, then I rest my case! (And the hiring managers tell all job applicants to be extra careful with their spelling and grammar on resumes, cover letters, applications, interviews, and follow-up letters.) But, as I am not familiar with the inside scoop of Qualcomm, I'll let those who are more familiar with Qualcomm to either support or refute your assertion in defense of that company's practice of hiring engineers.— March 12, 2011 2:06 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Not if the American employers didn't get away with illegal, non-job-related, age (or other) discrimination when hiring or firing, too often, and the federal government enforced their own lofty EEO laws. But, alas, we already know that America would've been in a much better shape in every way, if it cocnsistently enforced even half of its regulations properly, don't we? And let's not forget that some of the best scientific inventions or discoveries were made by people over 40 in age - some even well over 40, in fact - which the current employers conveniently forget. Nor do I buy the nonsense that older workers, especially engineers, are intellectually incapable of grasping or adapting to the rapid pace of modern technology. I can cite Alexander Graham Bell as just one famous example that refutes this nonsense.— March 12, 2011 11:39 a.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
Furthermore, our "Hope and Change" President Obama is adding an insult to the injury with his innovation and education mantras, I believe. He's being either utterly naive or, worse, downright misleading, by claiming that more technological innovations and more STEM graduates will put millions of Americans into work and recover American economy towards growth and prosperity. Well, hell, I'm all for technological innovations to keep America ahead, but, in reality, if the mass productions based on innovations are done overseas, like in China or India, for example, or done domestically by more H-1B visa workers from abroad, then it won't do a thing to help put millions of currently unemployed Americans back to work directly or indirectly. It will only further continue to enrich the corporate managements that have been gaining their disproportionately large benefits by already abusing the job offshoring or inshoring. In short, Innovated in America, But Made in China (or India or wherever outside the U.S.) will NOT create millions of decent-paying jobs for Americans, as Obama preaches wrongly or falsely!— March 12, 2011 8:17 a.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
pellis, sure, if competition is so great for improving the outcomes (and I do believe *some* competition is surely needed), as you say, then why stop at importing "more and better qualified" foreign engineers to America? Let's also import more and better qualified managers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, carpenters, politicians, artists, etc., from abroad, to replace ALL their American counterparts - for the sake of improving in every aspect. It's wonderful in theory, until you realize that America would soon be turned into the greatest culturally and socially FRAGMENTED nation in history! Seriously, is that the America that you or your children (and grandchildren) would really want to live in?— March 10, 2011 2:20 p.m.
Are American Engineers in Short Supply?
I'll tell you what. It's clear that there is a real shortage of qualified and affordable managers in America, including Qualcomm, seeing how Wall Street banks and Main Street manufacturers performed, over the last ten years at least. So, while we are at it, let's also use the H-1B visa program to replace all these totally overrated, overpaid, and greedy CEO's or managers, with their cheaper counterparts from China, India, Japan, or elsewhere. They are no more indispensible or irreplaceable than the domestic American engineers, especially when management skills have become similar across nations in the globalized economy. You think then the management of American tech companies such as Qualcomm would push for more H-1B visa workers, if they too could (and should) be replaced by foreign managers? Of course not!— March 10, 2011 1:35 p.m.