<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="">I love this woman's articles </div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Todor Fassl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com" target="_blank">fassl.tod@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Huh, I wonder why they want to hire an immigrant so badly. [I was born in the USA, btw. Todor is the Eastern European version of Theodore.]<br>
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The last 3 job openings my department had we filled with candidates considerably less qualified than we'd have liked. But I work for a state university and the pay scale sucks. The very last position we filled had what I thought were totally unrealistic qualifications. They wanted someone who could manage a VMware cluster, a HPC cluster, and help the office staff with their Excel spreadsheets. I told the chair of the search committee that anybody with those qualifications who'd be willing to work for what we pay must have something wrong with him. His response took me a little by surprise, "Well, what's wrong with you?" I had to point out that I am blind, I don't know if it just slipped his mind or what. It is nice when that happens. My immediate supervisor, who had been my boss for about 10 years, once handed me a printout saying something like, "Wow, look at this, you won't believe it." Anyway, somebody did apply for the job who had all the qualifications and was willing to accept the pay we were offering. And he really does knowall that stuff. He just turned out being such a bozo personally that they've given him his notice.<br>
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When I got hired, they asked the same thing of me. With all your qualifications, why are you willing to take this job. I was lucky I put it tactfully enough. I said, "As a blind person, I realize my options are limited. No matter how good I am, a lot of people just can't get past that." Just like in the video below, if you don't want to hire a disabled person, there are ways.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 04/29/2016 05:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
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Karenga Smith <<a href="mailto:ksmith@kpinetworx.com" target="_blank">ksmith@kpinetworx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I don't understand who is writing these job recs? What's even more<br>
frustrating is when they turn around and say they can't find enough<br>
"skilled" people and want to lobby congress to open up more H1 visa<br>
folks to fill these positions.<br>
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What makes you think the former isn't a direct result of the latter?<br>
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