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To: Alomex who wrote (158761)	7/24/2003 6:01:03 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 164687

The selection process for foreign workers is usually a lot more stringent and hence the average foreign worker admitted into the country is harder working than the average American worker. This has nothing to do with living "the good life" though. Simply if you choose the top 5% on one side and the top 80% on the other, guess which one tends to have better people. The challenge is not to let this affect your decisions when hiring. You should look at each person individually and hire them on their record, be them foreign born or native. I've hired plenty of as-good-as-anybody-else American born techies. Yes I have heard that argument, but I have found the "stringent selection criteria" mostly equates to what they used to call book-smart. When it comes to creative thinking and well rounded business acumen, nobody beats a US worker, imho.