Posted on 03/08/2018 9:17:43 AM PST by Academiadotorg
A glut? Get rid of H1B, fill those jobs. And restrict L1 and other visas. Send them all home.
Speaking of Accuracy in Academia, either put the apostrophe in the right place, or leave it out -- depending on the intended meaning.
Yeah, I was a Physics grad student back in the early ‘70s. It was a nightmare. The smartest guy I knew in the program became a farmer after he graduated because he could earn more.
On the flip side, Uncle Sam had a great vacation package for sunny Southeast Asia!
PhDs are on the more abstract theoretical side of things.
Engineers are practical, applied, real world problem solving.
And therein lies the root cause of the glut. The universities are creating roughly the same amount of STEM grads, maybe a bit more, but having a sea of H1B visa types makes for an oversaturation of the market.
My daughter didn’t want to go to college, that crushed me. Now she’s 29, works in a financial services call center. She makes over $80k per year. I’m glad she didn’t waste money and time getting a lame college degree which didn’t get her anywhere. Thank God I don’t have to worry anymore about supporting her and my grandson.
Academic scientists discover unbreakable Law of Supply and Demand..................
This was a problem way back in the late 80’s-early 90’s.
There was a huge glut of electrical and mechanical engineers in the midwest. So much so that most of them could earn more as a technician in the trades than they could as an engineer.
It wasn’t just blue collar jobs that were going overseas in those days.
I tested really well in electricity / electronics on the asvab.
Too bad I am somewhat color blind.
Not a whole range but just enough where I couldn’t quite make out one or two of charts with the number embedded.
Nobody ever asked about color perception the whole time I was in TV production. I ran chyron, set up tape machines and edit suites, and such.
And when they try to they spell it STEAM or STREAM by trying to shoehorn arts, reading and now music into technical study. I guess the liberal arts teachers can't bear to see students succeeding without them.
Since this article ONLY references university teaching positions, it is more than slightly misleading. By far the majority of STEM jobs is in private industry, even for PhD’s.
Because Apple/Facebook/Alphabet make $40,000 more a year hiring a software engineer from the Indian Institute of technology rather then Stanford or Caltech and they can't run off and start their own company after two years using the expertize they have aquired.
Engineering graduates from the maritime college in Maine
are getting offers, in some cases two or three: marine engineers to work on merchant ships and power plant engineers to work at power plants, paper mills, and large facilities like the Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor, ME that has plant engineers to operate their boilers, generators, etc.
We need more people from $hithole$ to park in entry level tech positions for 10 years, and provide services that Americans just can’t do, because of the “free market” or something.
Hibs program is abused.
They can find americans who can do the jobs but claim thy cannot.
Their trick is to ask for so many skill and “experience with” requirements, then for all the ask for, throw on a ridiculously low salary for all they are asking for. Most folks wont have the laundry list of stuff they want - companies do this on purpose - and the smaller group that does have it, know they are worth way more than what they are offering for salary, and wont leave their better current job for that.
So they set the condition criteria up so that either no american has everything they “must have”, and this allows them to go the h1b route. Of course none of the h1b folks have the entire list of things they said were needed, but these positions never truly needed all that in the first place. Having a mountain of experience and a list of things to know/work with were there to disqualify americans from the job without even having to take time to interview them in the first place.
What it also does do is give them leverage to pay the h1b folks less because “you dont have everything we want, so we will offer a percentage of the salary we were going to offer” - again, which was part of the plan all along. They play both sides.
Why are we importing so many STEM graduates from India via H-1B?
Of course this liberal writer will not bring that reality/issue up.
I concur with this ... my middle son graduated Texas Tech in 2016 with a ME and a minor in Petroleum Eng. He was on the job within 2 months at a little over $70m / year. He could be making more but he does not want to leave Texas.
PhD has meant ‘over-educated and over-priced’ for a few decades now.
There is no STEM glut.
There is an H-1B glut.
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BINGO!
Sounds more like a glut of professional STEM students that don’t want to enter the real world.
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