“Flooded With H1-B Visas” - Job Seekers Forced Into Pay to Play Hiring Battle
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Why are job seekers paying recruiters for job placements?
Story comes out, job hunters are so desperate that they're paying people to get hired and recruited. And by the way, this is not a story from Inquirer. This is a story from Wall Street Journal. So, landing a white collar job is getting so tough that candidates, not companies, are paying recruiters to match them with positions. Through good economic times and bad, recruiters have usually operated the other way around. Companies pay them to find talent for tough-to-fill positions. Now, though job seekers are hiring a new crop of what are called reverse recruiters to help them crack the competitive market, Daniel Bejarano, 36 years old, signed up for reverse recruiting service a referral last year after receiving an email pitch from the company, refers AI agent, connected him with an executive at Golden, a volunteer management company which was looking for platform engineer and data scientist.
Bejarano got the offer after several interviews. He then paid, referred 20% of his first month's pay once it landed in his bank account. Tom, your thoughts on this?
So I think what's going on here is a couple things going on. Is it tougher to find a job? Yes, in many sectors it is right now.
How is the traditional recruiting model changing?
Is the job market tightening? Yes, it appears to be. And it may be worse in certain sectors. It may be worse in certain geographies where you live. So, yes, it's good to have a Sherpa that's going to take you up to Everest and going to help you through it. The other thing is that companies are having – horrible time trying to filter out incoming inquiries for jobs. And it's hard to have yourself show up in that. We see it for many of the clients at BetDavid Consulting. They talk about that. There are so many bots and so many fake resumes. I'll give you a real world example. We put up a job opening for a business analyst. And we were inundated by a set of resumes that were coming from offering us people from a certain country.
But there were brokers in the middle trying to offer them to us and saying, and we can help you with the H-1B. That spam was on top of good candidates that we wanted to see, that we wanted to review, good quality people. you know citizens ready to work and so that's one of the reasons that um but david consulting we built higher metrics to help filter that right now filter is the headline here it's not what they're talking about people are actually paying to get a company to help them filter in to find a job the same way that companies are willing to pay money for software to help them what does that mean
What is reverse recruiting and how does it work?
That means it's broken. The system is broken. Let me explain to you what this means. This is like saying the market has changed so much because of female-driven AI that men create that women are paying men to go on a date with them. That's the best comparison I can make. That's a good comparison. That's a weird thing to happen. Why do you think we're here? Why do you think we're here where people are paying for recruiters to place them at a company?
Well, there's no question that we have a weak labor market in the United States. I mean, first of all, look at the data that came out last week. Challenger reported the largest January announced layoffs since January 2009, where we were in the financial crisis, a great recession. Look at the jolts numbers that just came out. There was a collapse in in job openings. So we have a weak labor market. The only thing strong is inflation. And, you know, you have the clip from Fox News with Besson on there. Well, I was on Fox and Friends not too long ago on a Saturday. And unfortunately, I'll probably never be on again because I went on. And I told the truth about consumer prices and inflation. And Trump went ballistic on Truth Social and just chastised Fox for having me on, said I was a jerk, said I was a loser, that I was just a Trump hater.
And they said, find the booker who put this jerk on. And ever since then, nobody will return my emails at Fox News. I think they got me completely banned. From from the network for speaking honestly, you know, Trump actually said that I was wrong because I claimed that prices were going up when, according to Trump, they're going down, they're going down massively.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why are job seekers paying recruiters for job placements?
0:00–1:12
2
How is the traditional recruiting model changing?
1:12–2:41
3
What is reverse recruiting and how does it work?
2:41–5:05
4
What factors are contributing to a tightening job market?
5:05–9:06
5
How are H-1B visa policies affecting job seekers?
9:06–10:04
6
What challenges do companies face in filtering job applications?
10:04–13:22
7
How is the current economy impacting job opportunities?
13:22–16:16
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