Re: .NET Technical Architect - Looking for contract opportunities.

I have to pipe in at this point.  I recently did a posting for a .net
developer.  I also called all of my local contacts.  Well over 90% of the
resumes I received were from 'non-Americans' begging for work.  All were
very qualified, all were eager to relocate, and all were making didly squat
where they were and were happy!

All, and I mean, of the folks I contacted locally were happy with their
'coush, I do not do much and get paid for it' jobs.  I was very
disappointed.



Thanks,

Greg Robinson
Custom Data Systems, Inc.
www.cds-am.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Unmoderated DOTNET job forum
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Hugh Brown
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-JOBS] .NET Technical Architect - Looking for
contract opportunities.


Well, you're misrepresenting what I was saying for your own polemical
purposes.
Whatever.

Bring it on.

Would all those American developers who could do my job please form a line
to
the left? We've tried to find qualified Americans without a lot of success.

I'm with Brad on this: America prospers by the free availability of labor
and
talent in the same way that it benefits from free trade in products
generally.

--- Richard Kucia <[email protected]> wrote:
> A TN visa is certainly NOT painless, as it allows an American company to
> hire less expensive foreign workers and thus worsens the American
> unemployment picture. Ask any American who is looking for work if the
> TN/H1-B/L-1 programs are "painless"! These programs are designed to
> allow companies who have exhausted all other options to obtain the labor
> they need, but too often these programs are abused, and become simply a
> cost-cutting unpatriotic maneuver.
>
> Richard J. Kucia
> Owner, Kucia Associates
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unmoderated DOTNET job forum
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hugh Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-JOBS] .NET Technical Architect - Looking for
> contract opportunities.
>
>
> Re: "I'm not looking for permanent opportunities, so may not be able to
> go the
> TN/NAFTA route."
>
> A TN is specifically a work visa with temporary intent. Maybe you said
> this
> wrong, but if you want to work in the States temporarily, the TN visa is
> exactly what you want. It does what you want and it lowers the bar for
> American
> employers who are concerned about the administrative complications of
> permanent
> visas (like the L-1 and the H1-B).
>
> Also, for Americans who are hiring, getting a TN visa for a Canadian is
> pretty
> painless, as far as I can tell. There is no labor certification process,
> for
> example. It ought to be as easy as sending a detailed offer letter
> ("Dear Mr.
> Kaczor, We here at AmeriCorp are dying to hire you as a Computer Systems
> Analyst on a TN Visa...") and then filing a photocopy of the I-94 that
> the
> Canadian worker gets with the INS (recently renamed to something else).
>
> But that's just my perspective as a Canadian who has had a number of
> such
> visas, not as an employer who has done the hiring.
>
> Hugh


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