NepGuyUS,
I would suggest that you google about these
companies. From what I found, I am
pretty sure that these are not genuine companies or even if they are genuinely
registered, they don’t have real jobs.
See here:
http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24795
http://mboard.rediff.com/newboard/board.php?service_name=&boardid=money2007jul04visa&from=story
http://www.goolti.com/reviewdetail.php?company_id=470
A friend of mine was contacted by an Indian IT company
(Integrated Software Solutions, Princeton, NJ) offering him a business analyst
position with a 50-60K salary. They offered to reimburse his travel costs to
NJ, and said that they will train him for a month or so and then he will be
sent to where the client companies are located. A Chinese friend of mine was
also contacted a Chinese from an IT company (HD Dimension, Princeton, NJ) offering
the same position with same salary, and same training during which they said
they would pay for the accommodation. But they had told her that she would have
to pay $500 in advance.
The position and salary both sound like what everyone is looking
for, esp. this year when the job market has been going through toughest time in
recent yrs. But how real are the offers? Doing a little bit of research on the internet
abt these companies can give you an idea that the jobs may not be real.
Here are few things to observe, or ask them:
1.
These companies are consultancies/staffing
agencies. They don’t have jobs. It’s their clients that have the job and there
is no guarantee that the consultancy will be able to get a particular job or a
project from a client. What staffing agencies do is that they simply submit job
applications on your behalf at a client company and if the client company decides
to hire you, then you are in. The client company makes payment to the staffing
agency and the staffing agency, after deducting commission, makes payment to
you. Again, there is no guarantee that you will be the one who will be offered
the project or the job because there are other staffing agencies vying for the
same job/project.
2.
Why do they train you? Because they accept ppl
with any majors and they have train these ppl so that they can at least be
familiar with IT. Do you think that with a month or couple of months’ training,
you can land a contract job/project? Well, may be yes. These consulting
companies can even make fake resumes to show to their clients how qualified
their ppl are (The guy from that Indian company
Integrated Software Solutions told my
friend not to worry about experience because they can put 2-3 yrs experience in
the resume). Even after you are able to get the job/project, how are you going
to do the job? (assuming you don’t have much experience in IT other than the
month long training by the consulting company).
3.
If you go to the websites of these companies,
you will see many fortune 500 companies such as JP Morgan, IBM, Fannie Mae etc
listed as their clients. How true is their list of clients? There is no way to
verify ( other than perhaps contacting the companies themselves).
4.
Usually these consulting companies have names
similar to well known and established companies. So, when you google about
them, most of the results that you see are for their well established
namesakes.
5.
On their websites, there is little or no
information on where to contact them. No phone, no email address, no street
address etc (eg. SourceInfoTech Inc’s website doesn’t have any of them)
6.
Usually they say that they will tell you that
they will provide H1B visa or green card. The only thing they can do is file
your application for H1B visa and then it goes into the lottery system. So,
what guarantee is there for visa sponsorship or green card (I think the later
is in the hands of US govt.).
7.
Usually these are newly established companies
(7-8 yrs old) and google results will show that other people have also asked questions
about the authenticity of these companies.
Good Luck!
