December 11, 2006
Dear Sacramento Bee,
I
have been alerting you to the fraudulent jobs ads that you have been running for
the past two years, but have not stated your position on whether you condone
running help wanted ads when the intent of the employer is to NOT find any
qualified applicants.
HP Roseville has been laying off its highly skilled workforce over the past few years. There are many qualified Americans in the job pool. While HP has been lobbying Congress to increase the H-1B cap, they have not turned out at CSU Sacramento job fairs nor run help wanted in the Sacramento Bee - until yesterday.
This ad for a "Senior Software Engineer" is a sham. It does not list any skill requirements and explicitly directs that applicants not phone to ask about the skills desired. This is clearly a PERM ad which HP will present to DOL to demonstrate a "good faith" attempt to find a qualified American. While U.S. companies are able to fill 99% of their positions with U.S. workers, 99% of the time, somehow, employers like HP are unable to find a qualified applicant when they don't intend to.
Here's the same "opening" on CareerBuilder
It appears HP has set up mail stop 4206 for applicants to fake ads:
This job does not exist - it is already filled by a foreign worker:
When I worked at this HP site during the dot-com boom in
1998, we were weeding through stacks of highly qualified applicants from ivy
league schools. There was never a shortage of resumes to recruit from.
Search for Keyword "Roseville" - 4000 workers at the site - SIX TOTAL OPENINGS - ONLY ONE IS SOFTWARE RELATED:
http://h10055.www1.hp.com/jobsathp/content/search/search.asp?Lang=ENen
| 12/01/2006 | Embedded Software Design Engineer (Entry Level) | United States - California - Roseville | Full-time | |
| 11/28/2006 | Customer Relationship Manager (Workplace Services) |
United States - California - Palo Alto |
Full-time | |
| 11/10/2006 | Engineering Project Manager |
United States - California - Cupertino |
Full-time | |
| 09/24/2006 | TSG Sales Finance — Specialist I |
United States - California - Roseville |
Full-time | |
| 09/24/2006 | TSG Sales Operations Finance |
United States - California - Palo Alto |
Full-time | |
| 09/20/2006 | Finance Project Manager |
United States - California - Roseville |
Full-time |
Given HP Roseville's purging of several hundred workers, and their dearth of Software Engineering openings, this practice is shameful and should be exposed.
Sincerely,
Mr. Kim Berry kim@programmersguild.org
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