<p>My son gets a lot of email job postings from his departmental email list-server. These are typically forwarded by professors from graduates. I think that those job postings are real as they are from the inside and I’d guess that the graduate would get a bounty for a referral.</p>
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I don’t agree, I’ve worked for companies that posted job listings like that. We were not looking for an H1-B.</p>
<p>But we never filled the job, either. The people who are expert in only a few of the areas listed don’t apply or get filtered out by the automated resume software (or a brain-dead HR person), or stretch their resume and then bomb the interview.</p>
<p>Well, notrichenough you haven’t worked for consulting companies that posted job openings listing skills and experience meant to filter out other applicants except for the foreigner.</p>
<p>Only companies that are “H1-B dependent” are required to try to recruit US workers first. And there are ways around that. And it is widely flouted because there is virtually no enforcement.</p>
<p>So except for a very few companies, there is no need to play games like that with their job listing.</p>
<p>I found about ten positions that she can apply for today and I typically see about three to four new jobs show up daily (M-F) which are reasonable positions for her. I also ran into a hospital site where they have quite a few jobs for those with AS degrees in CNA (Nursing Assistant I think), Biomedical Technologist, and others. It seems like those coming out of Community Colleges with these specialized degrees may have better luck in finding opportunities than those with non-specific BS/BA degrees. The AS jobs might not have the career potential of BS/BA jobs but one could go for more part-time education.</p>
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<p>This does not guarantee that the game is not played because it is. And I did say, “I think some of those skills requirements for a particular job opening are fake.”</p>
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<p>If rates normalize, bonds get crushed. </p>
<p>And rates are way below normal.</p>
<p>I didn’t like the market today. I want it to get crushed.</p>
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Back in the 80’s and 90’s, when enforcement of work visas was a lot stricter, you would see things like “2.8 years experience using version x.y.z of tool-noone-ever-heard-of designing something-really-specific”. </p>
<p>Those were clearly designed to fit one specific person, and I haven’t seen ads like that in years.</p>
<p>Doct, :).</p>
<p>Yeah… Buyers do want the market to get crushed.</p>
<p>I guess you are rooting for a strong economy. Really get those rates up. ;)</p>
<p>The futures are down. Not crushed though. But there is still time.</p>
<p>The job market for young people is pretty poor… Even for many college graduates. Many college graduates are underemployed.</p>
<p>As parents, we have to have some patience. I see very bright young people take a long time to get jobs. Then there are the ahem middle aged people. Some never get great jobs.</p>
<p>Everybody does not want to work the computer science field.</p>
<p>“I guess you are rooting for a strong economy. Really get those rates up.”</p>
<p>No, ideally a weak economy with those rates up like the perception last week.</p>
<p>When I graduated college in 73, the job market stunk. Everybody wanted to be lawyer. Technical jobs requiring science and engineering degrees were non - existent. I spent the summer watching Watergate and ended up in graduate school in January.</p>
<p>“I guess you are rooting for a strong economy. Really get those rates up.”</p>
<p>No, ideally a weak economy with those rates up like the perception last week.</p>
<p>I try to be realistic. Rates rising and a weakening economy is not the bet I want to make going forward. </p>
<p>I barely remember 1973. Just kidding. </p>
<p>I think there are structural changes now that make things worse now.</p>
<p>1973? My gosh, someone almost as old as me (who no doubt also wishes that he had put a bundle of money in 30 year zeros in the late 70s).</p>
<p>I didn’t remember that opec raised oil prices during the 1973 - 1975 recession. You’re right about structural changes. I had a conversation on this with a fellow slave at work. The fact that productivity is increasing due to technological advances makes the need for human capital less necessary - a trend that is only going to get worse with time. Boomers are working longer if not till death, making it more difficult for youth to find employment. Back a number of years ago - 50? - this was foreseen and the view was that it would lead to shortened work weeks which so far hasn’t happened. Perhaps going forward, it will.</p>
<p>“1973? My gosh, someone almost as old as me (who no doubt also wishes that he had put a bundle of money in 30 year zeros in the late 70s).”</p>
<p>Yes I reached that ss minimum age back in February.</p>
<p>Doct, I like your post 8297. </p>
<p>I thought with technological changes we were going to have prosperity and shorter work weeks. </p>
<p>Now we have too many people underemployed. Too many workers working more than 40 hours a week and are slaves to technology.</p>
<p>Doct, this is your last year as a slave?</p>