Rolling the Dice

I got a giggle out of this tweet from Dice this week:

You know: Dice, the technical jobs portal, which has become your one-stop shop for being spammed by contract labor job shops for cut-rate no-benefits “contingency” positions that result from massive layoffs by Fortune 50 tech firms.

I can’t recall the last time I was contacted by a recruiter for a full-time position with an actual direct-hire company via Dice. But recruiters based in India with US addresses and VoIP phone numbers? Yeah.

Only occasionally are they for anything I’m actually suited to (clue: I’m not an architect, network administrator or developer). And apparently there are no maps of the United States in India, because Kentucky, Texas, and Ohio are not within commuting distance. Even Los Angeles is a deal breaker for someone in the Bay Area.

Also—thanks for the offer of helping me get an H1-B visa. But no.

(As an aside, many of these companies are 8A certified—meaning they are designated as “small, minority-owned” for purposes of Federal contracting and therefore receive preferential consideration in procurements. And many of them are gold or platinum partners of companies like Microsoft and Oracle. As another aside, Microsoft is one of the companies that is pushing for more and more H1-B visas because they claim there aren’t enough qualified technical prospects already in this country.)

However, I realize I’m spitting into the wind here. Dice doesn’t give a monkey’s about what kind of spam its users receive as long as the spammers are paying their subscription fees. Therefore, this little advice graphic is particularly amusing. They must have needed to meet a tweet quota.