"International" Recruiting

[ita]

The JournalStar has an interesting article about how Columbus, NE, is addressing their shortage of workers: targeting citizens of US territories. I am not sure what all is entailed in being able to emigrate to the US for work from a territory, but this maybe something that Omaha's Chamber should do. I was looking at one of the territories that suffer from high unemployment, in 2010, they were at 23% unemployment, American Samoa. They might not provide all the tech talent and professionals we need, but could fill areas of entry level positions, skilled labor, logistical workers (ie. drivers), and warehousing. Additionally, if you know anything about Samoans, if you bring one, you're really bringing several, as extended families are very tight knit and tend to move around together. Anyway, just a thought I had.

https://journalstar.com/business/local/ ... the-latest

[ita]

Trump's restriction on 'enormously popular' work visas alarms Omaha metro business community

The Omaha area business community and immigrant advocates are alarmed by President Donald Trump’s freeze on certain work visas, saying the move will hinder economic growth and chill the metro area’s ability to recruit techies.
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Andrew Schilling, in charge of International Business Development for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, called the H-1B a business-friendly program that’s in high demand by U.S. employers, including in Nebraska.

“It’s enormously popular with American businesses,” he said. “It enables them to bring skilled employees not available in the U.S. And these are good-paying jobs that aren’t undermining the salary structures of American workers.”

Last year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, about 1,500 workers of some 250 Nebraska employers were processed through the H-1B visa program. The employers were far-ranging, including the University of Nebraska Medical Center, UNL, Kiewit Corp., West Corp, CSG Systems, HDR, First Data, law firms, insurance companies, banks, roofers and auctioneers.
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Amy Peck works on immigration and work-based visas for Omaha’s Jackson Lewis law firm. She said her firm handles hundreds of H-1B, L-1 and other work-based visa applications a year. In one timely case, she said, a Nebraska client is on the brink of bringing a specialized manager to town, and it appears that hire is nixed.

“The idea that this will save U.S. jobs is nonsense,” Peck said. “Clients by and large only hire foreign-born individuals as a last resort, if there aren’t enough U.S. workers.”

[bigredmed1]

The idea that foreign workers are only hired as a last resort doesn’t seem to jibe with my experience. I know people in IT that strive to hire foreign workers so they can get more out of them than US workers are willing to put up with.

[Omahacritic]

All these businesses have been bending over backwards the past few weeks to show how “woke” they are.

Put their money where there mouth is ... go and hire some minorities. Invest in training the Same people you say you have woken too!

[Dundeemaha]

All these businesses have been bending over backwards the past few weeks to show how “woke” they are.

Put their money where there mouth is ... go and hire some minorities. Invest in training the Same people you say you have woken too!

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[NEDodger]

The JournalStar has an interesting article about how Columbus, NE, is addressing their shortage of workers: targeting citizens of US territories. I am not sure what all is entailed in being able to emigrate to the US for work from a territory, but this maybe something that Omaha's Chamber should do. I was looking at one of the territories that suffer from high unemployment, in 2010, they were at 23% unemployment, American Samoa. They might not provide all the tech talent and professionals we need, but could fill areas of entry level positions, skilled labor, logistical workers (ie. drivers), and warehousing. Additionally, if you know anything about Samoans, if you bring one, you're really bringing several, as extended families are very tight knit and tend to move around together. Anyway, just a thought I had.

https://journalstar.com/business/local/ ... the-latest

We have a shortage of high-skill workers. We definitely have a surplus of people who are perfectly capable of functioning as warehouse workers.

[bigredmed1]

The JournalStar has an interesting article about how Columbus, NE, is addressing their shortage of workers: targeting citizens of US territories. I am not sure what all is entailed in being able to emigrate to the US for work from a territory, but this maybe something that Omaha's Chamber should do. I was looking at one of the territories that suffer from high unemployment, in 2010, they were at 23% unemployment, American Samoa. They might not provide all the tech talent and professionals we need, but could fill areas of entry level positions, skilled labor, logistical workers (ie. drivers), and warehousing. Additionally, if you know anything about Samoans, if you bring one, you're really bringing several, as extended families are very tight knit and tend to move around together. Anyway, just a thought I had.

https://journalstar.com/business/local/ ... the-latest

We have a shortage of high-skill workers. We definitely have a surplus of people who are perfectly capable of functioning as warehouse workers.

Capable? Yes, we have plenty. Willing to? Willing to do a good job at it? Not so many.

[Omahacritic]

The JournalStar has an interesting article about how Columbus, NE, is addressing their shortage of workers: targeting citizens of US territories. I am not sure what all is entailed in being able to emigrate to the US for work from a territory, but this maybe something that Omaha's Chamber should do. I was looking at one of the territories that suffer from high unemployment, in 2010, they were at 23% unemployment, American Samoa. They might not provide all the tech talent and professionals we need, but could fill areas of entry level positions, skilled labor, logistical workers (ie. drivers), and warehousing. Additionally, if you know anything about Samoans, if you bring one, you're really bringing several, as extended families are very tight knit and tend to move around together. Anyway, just a thought I had.

https://journalstar.com/business/local/ ... the-latest

We have a shortage of high-skill workers. We definitely have a surplus of people who are perfectly capable of functioning as warehouse workers.

Capable? Yes, we have plenty. Willing to? Willing to do a good job at it? Not so many.

Capable of being trained at high skilled jobs? How do we know unless they are recruited and put thru the rigors of training?

So many jobs say “Bachelor’s Degree” required. Certainly, a Degree is preferred, but I don’t think lack of a degree has to be a barrier in some high skilled jobs.

[Busguy2010]

So many jobs say “Bachelor’s Degree” required. Certainly, a Degree is preferred, but I don’t think lack of a degree has to be a barrier in some high skilled jobs.

No doubt about that. A lot of mfers are out there in our back yard and can easily do a better job untrained (just lacking a degree, not stupid) than half the mfers that have college degrees. I dread the day where it becomes a basic human requirement to go to college just to do a half-assed job that pays just well enough to be baseline comfortable. Might have been yesterday, or was it yesteryear? Soon as everybody has a degree, the quality of the degree diminishes because I know for a dam fact not everybody who graduated college is smart. A college degree should not be a rite of passage into adult life. I don't like the idea of people coming out of college with a bs degree just for studying, going through the motions, writing the correct things on a paper and filling the correct boxes. They come into the real world at the age of 23, 24, 25 as greenhorns, and half of em start relaxing like their work is behind them, (thank god I'm done with school) and the other half don't even end up working in the field they went to school for (don't quote me). And then everybody is waist-deep in debt. I went to school for 18 years of my life and busted my azz to get good grades, and it ended up doing me really no good at the end of the day. I really did not learn one thing in college that helps me in my life now, that I wasn't able to figure out by life experience and reading... At the end of the day, I went to college for 4 years to get a degree to do a job I already knew enough about how to do just through life experience and reading books. I literally know everything I need to know to do the job, I just don't have the degree. The whole thing just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.