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Recruiting Skilled Internationls and the H-1B Bottleneck

Google Calls For Expansion Of H-1B Visa Program

By Jason Lee Miller –

Affects their ability to be choosey

In lieu of recent history, parents may one day tell their kids, “President? But why? When you grow up, you could work at Google.” With over a million resumes per year, Google can afford to be choosey, and doesn’t like having its talent pool options narrowed. For the entire article go to WebProNews

Google is not the only company suffering from anxiety over finding skilled workers. I have friends and associates who are desperate to hire skilled employees and the only place they claim they can find them is from international sources. In unison, they complain about the H-1B Bottleneck and wonder aloud sometimes why when we have so many unskilled foreign workers we so lack a process that will permit skilled workers from the international pool to find gainful employment in the United States.

Corra is one of the background checking companies that has stepped up its international searches to accommodate the need for international employees. Corra offers international criminal searches as well as international education verification and foreign employment verification for almost every country around the globe.

Meanwhile, friends, associates Google, and a multitude of other companies wring their hands waiting for their candidates to clear and finally get their H-1B documents. I can’t blame them for growing impatient with the present system. It’s a competitive world and even more so with the economic downtown. Every company needs to find the best people available. And more than a few come from international sources.

So here we are in some sense all dressed up with no place to go. We are slower than we would care to be in developing new technology, providing added goods and services, exploring new business channels. No fun here.

Perhaps with the next administration, officials will perceive a greater urgency and work to establish a more streamlined process. Perhaps.

Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.