I was planning to spend this lunch hour at a Verizon Wireless information session. Unfortunately, I was informed that Verizon only hires individuals authorized to work in the U.S., therefore I am spending this lunch hour questioning this supposed industry leader's hiring practices.This policy demonstrates that Verizon does not make it a priority to hire the best possible talent to serve its customers. While I recognize that there is large pool of potential domestic hires, but Verizon still could hire those people if they were better than an international applicant. Considering international students simply expands Verizon's applicant pool. I can see no reason why to not consider international students, especially when there is no paperwork associated with hiring them as an intern.
All international MBA students under the terms of their F-1 visa are permitted to work in the United States for a cumulative period of 1yr without the need of any other work visa. This means that Verizon does not have any additional paperwork or monitoring to complete while they evaluate the quality of our work. Should they decide that we are a valuable asset, then they may acquire a H1B visa for us to work in the United States. While the H1B does entail some paperwork, it is a process that many companies, with far less resources that Verizon, navigate in order to ensure they have the best people. Furthermore, NAFTA provides an even easier route to hiring North American students post-graduation.
Bottom line: I can see little excuse for companies relying on human capital to ignore international students. The only excuse can be ignorance of the process.
I think I am going to check out Sprint's policies.
2 comments:
Hey Trevor, This blog is great, keep up the good work. I share your dissapointment with the Verizon hiring situation. Hopefully this isn't the norm. I work at RIM here in Waterloo Ontario and am considering MBA schools in California. RIM partners with hundreds of cell phone carriers around the world so an internship with Verizon would have been of great interest to me. Good luck with your studies and I will be staying tuned to see where you end up after graduating. All the best, Steve
Thanks Steve. The great thing about California is that for every tech company that doesn't consider internationals, there are a multiple that do - you just need to aggressively uncover the rocks.
Also, the verizon office out here is simply focused on delivering the service to the So.Cal area. The main product decisions are made at their HQ in New Jersey (or Delaware? can't specifically remember).
Let me know if you ever need further info about West Coast Schools.
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