How to Run Ads Guaranteed to NOT Find Any Qualified U.S. Workers

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 by Frank Roche

There’s a foreign worker hiring firestorm that’s spilled onto the political front pages. Sure, excesses in executive compensation is front page news, but hiring and H-1B visas?

This is nuts. Companies run fake ads so they can eliminate American workers and hire foreign workers? Say it ain’t so.

At least one law firm advises companies on how to do just that. Here’s the description from the YouTube video:

Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers…[See what] …thousands of…companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

Here’s the video. You should watch it. If you’re a hiring manager and are using these tactics, I say you should stop it. There’s the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. In HR, you should know the difference.