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< Back to current issue of Immigrant's Weekly Dear Gregory R. Farrington and ILW.COM Readers: I have been the Director of International Human Resources for IT companies since the early 1990s and I can assure you that there were indeed shortages in the IT Labor Market and the need for foreign workers to fill these shortages. I can attest to the fact that to hire an information technology professional from overseas had an average cost of $10,000.00 per hire. I can attest to the fact that besides the overall cost of running ads overseas and holding in-person open houses for information technology professionals, I also had to deal with the complexities of immigration compliance and relocation. A cost that our firm would have never incurred had their been enough IT personnel in the United States. I can attest to the fact the in order to place these workers on jobs in the United States I had to meet Department of Labor Prevailing Wages which often resulted in me paying a foreign worker well above what I was paying an American. The high prevailing wages for foreign workers in the late 1990s created an unstable salary range at the consulting firm that I was working for - as foreign workers made more than American workers overall because the DOL required us to meet certain wages that did not meet market trends at that time. I can attest to the fact that there were not enough IBM Mainframe Programmer/Analysts in the 1990s to fulfill our client requests and I can attest to the fact that when we did find local talent their loyalty to our firm never lasted as they would jump from consulting firm to consulting firm looking for a better offer. Whereas the foreign workers that were able to meet our shortage areas worked along side our firm for years and are still working with me til this day. Still currently working in the IT industry as the Director of International HR, I can now attest to the fact that there is still a shortage of qualified IT workers because now our clients are looking for as many skills in one person as they can possible find. Trying to locate an IT professional who has several IT skills on various platforms has proven to be difficult. The days of "I am looking for a COBOL programmer" are over. These days clients are requesting everything under the sun. It is my feeling that the most qualified applicant should be chosen for the position.
Sincerely,
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