‘Beneath the radar’: How India using job platforms and corporate alliances to shaft U.S. workers
A recent CNN report exposed a lawsuit filed against software company Workday, accusing it of embedding illegal bias into its AI-powered hiring platform.
The plaintiff, Derek Mobley, said he was automatically rejected from over 100 positions, often within minutes despite meeting the qualifications.
“Algorithmic decision making and data analytics are not and should not be assumed to be race neutral, disability neutral or age neutral,” said Mobley.
The case brings into focus a much deeper issue: how artificial intelligence, job platforms, and corporate partnerships have quietly reengineered America’s hiring infrastructure. Through algorithmic filters and foreign-aligned job pipelines, U.S. workers are being screened out, systematically replaced by a workforce handpicked and trained to bypass them entirely. And it’s happening beneath the radar, through the very technology Americans are told is designed to be “fair.”
The orchestrated funnel: how India used job platforms and corporate alliances to displace American workers
India’s rise as a global labor exporter didn’t happen by accident; it was the result of a deliberate strategy. That strategy began with embedding itself into U.S. job placement pipelines and ended with complete corporate integration through industry-academia MoUs.
The All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, and Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, engineered this system in partnership with global job platforms like Monster, LinkedIn, and apna.co, followed by deeper alignment with multinational employers like Amazon, Salesforce, Oracle, and VMware. The goal: redirect global hiring pipelines away from American talent and into Indian human capital databases rebranded as “upskilled” labor.
AICTE & CII: How India inflated employability through strategic accreditation, skill manipulation, and labor export
AICTE and CII have jointly spearheaded a vast, government-backed campaign to increase the “employability” of Indian nationals. This campaign was not just about raising skills, it was about manufacturing global labor market access by inflating qualifications, using AI-driven resume and skill optimization, and redirecting global employer pipelines toward India’s labor databases.
AICTE encouraged thousands of technical institutions to seek National Board of Accreditation certification, granting global credibility to Indian degrees. This also enabled mass certification of under-qualified students while making their credentials appear equivalent to U.S. degrees.
AICTE Skill Development Cell
India’s Skill & Experience Inflation Programs:
● NEEM (National Employability Enhancement Mission): Paired students with companies for informal internships, allowing experience to be claimed even when unrelated to the degree field.
● EETP (Employability Enhancement Training Program): Collaborated with platforms like LinkedIn and Monster India to train students on resume building and keyword optimization creating AI-friendly resumes tailored to foreign job systems.
● PMKVY-TI (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana – Technical Institutes): A mass upskilling program linked to employment metrics, but often used to bulk-certify students on paper regardless of actual proficiency.
CII, AICTE & India’s quiet takeover of global job platforms
India’s economic apparatus, led by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), has systematically built Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with job giants like Monster.com and LinkedIn. These partnerships have created an AI-enabled “labor export funnel” that channels U.S. jobs directly into India’s human capital databases.
These aren’t isolated partnerships; they’re part of a decades-long strategy to reposition India as the global labor supplier by reverse-engineering job qualifications, skill metrics and hiring algorithms used by U.S. employers.
MoUs that redirected U.S. jobs to India
AICTE–Monster India MoU (2017)
Monster was granted full access to AICTE’s college network over 10,000 institutions and 3.6 million students. Monster didn’t just advertise jobs. It collected employer preference data, built employability indices, and fed the results back to Indian training programs.
Monster was then tasked with tracking student skills, managing campus recruitment, and placing Indian students in global jobs.
“Monster India will provide insights into skill gaps and facilitate job placements.”
LinkedIn launched its “Placements” platform in India through AICTE. This placement platform would allow students regardless of academic prestige to access standardized job assessments and global job postings. LinkedIn gathered skills and resume data at scale, enabling Indian colleges to reverse-engineer what global employers wanted.
These weren’t just job listings, they were data pipelines used to reshape Indian workforce training to mimic U.S. job qualifications, bypassing geographic barriers and deprioritizing American workers.
AICTE–apna.co MoU (2024):
A newer platform, Apna.co was integrated into India’s national employment framework via AICTE’s “SWAYAM Plus” career portal. Apna uses AI to generate resume templates and match Indian workers with jobs abroad including in the U.S. by scraping real-time U.S. job data.
“apna.co will power SWAYAM Plus with AI to match Indian students with jobs around the world.”
Systematic resume engineering to defraud U.S. employers
These partnerships didn’t just help Indian job seekers, they reprogrammed the labor funnel. With real-time insights into what skills U.S. employers seek, Indian candidates were able to falsely claim those skills often without possessing them. Worse, job platforms’ AI was trained to match those keyword-rich resumes to U.S. jobs, giving the illusion that American talent didn’t apply.
That’s why companies claim, “we didn’t get qualified American applicants.” They did it’s just that their AI platforms deprioritized Americans by design. This isn’t just a tech issue. It’s a foreign interference operation targeting the U.S. workforce.
India’s deep access into these hiring engines has allowed it to:
● Redirect hiring pipelines into Indian databases
● Reframe qualifications through manipulated training metrics
● Exploit visa loopholes like OPT and H-1B to onboard foreign labor
● Create a false labor shortage narrative in the U.S.
The Workday lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg. The AI hiring ecosystem dominated by multinational platforms integrated with India’s education and workforce ministries has become a gateway to displacement. The U.S. never lacked talent. It lacked gatekeeping. India didn’t fill a gap, it created one.
Industry-Academia: From redirected job placement to industry India advantages
What began as job-portal partnerships soon evolved into something far more powerful. With real-time data on U.S. employer demands in hand, India launched a wave of corporate-backed “employability” programs, strategically embedded inside its own education system.
Under the banner of workforce development, India partnered directly with U.S. multinational corporations, Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, LinkedIn, VMware, and others, to mass-certify Indian students in precisely the skills needed for American jobs. These weren’t general training efforts. They were tailored, fast-tracked programs designed to feed Indian workers directly into the global tech labor funnel.
While these programs expanded across India, Americans, especially veterans, recent graduates and mid-career professionals, were told they weren’t qualified. But this wasn’t a gap. It was a manipulated redirect.
● Onshore discrimination: Indian résumés, stuffed with AI-friendly keywords and U.S.-backed certifications, passed automated filters. American résumés were deprioritized or ignored.
● Offshore outsourcing: Companies hired “certified” Indian workers remotely or imported them on H-1B, OPT and STEM OPT visas.
● Bilateral betrayal: American corporations provided technical training to Indian students overseas while excluding American workers from the same programs at home.
This wasn’t about filling shortages. It was about designing a surplus, abroad.
U.S. companies claimed they couldn’t find qualified talent domestically, but behind the scenes, they were helping the Indian government build an entire foreign labor ecosystem engineered to displace American workers. These efforts were coordinated through India’s Ministry of Education–backed bodies like AICTE and ICT Academy.
And the numbers prove the fraud.
India used its partnerships to simulate “global job readiness” for its youth, even though as of 2023 only 5% of Indian youth ages 20–24 had formal employability skills, according to AICTE’s own metrics.
Despite this, Indian institutions flooded the market with inflated credentials: LinkedIn learning badges, AWS modules, Oracle certifications, AI resume optimizers. With U.S. support, India simulated job-readiness at scale, regardless of actual competency. These weren’t just skills initiatives. These programs weren’t about closing a domestic skills gap. They were a labor export strategy creating a foreign skills surplus, specifically tailored and deliberately designed to match American job descriptions while displacing the very workers they claimed to support.
The corporate accomplices: U.S. tech giants helped India displace American workers
The program was straightforward: Build industry-academia pipelines in India, align skill development with U.S. job qualifications, use corporate e-learning platforms for mass training and flood American job portals with foreign-trained “certified” candidates.
These were not charitable education initiatives, they were targeted labor funnel programs.
Here’s a partial list of U.S.-based multinationals that actively partnered with Indian government-backed ICT Academy and AICTE to make Indian nationals more “employable” in the global workforce:
Amazon AWS
Through AWS Academy, Amazon helped deliver cloud computing and DevOps certifications to tens of thousands of Indian students and faculty, ensuring their skills aligned with roles in U.S.-based enterprises.
Oracle
Oracle Academy was formally introduced to Indian education institutions through ICT Academy to mass-certify students in enterprise applications, data management, and Java.
“Oracle and ICT Academy… to teach students industry-relevant skills.”
Palo Alto Networks
Cybersecurity, once a national security domain, is now being outsourced at scale. With help from Palo Alto, India’s ICT Academy enrolled entire institutions into its cybersecurity academy.
Salesforce
Salesforce partnered with ICT Academy to run the New India Championship, the largest “learnathon” in the country. Its Trailhead platform was used to mass-train Indian students in CRM and SaaS tools widely used in the U.S., directly preparing foreign candidates for roles in American firms.
VMware
ICT Academy became VMware’s Regional Academy for India, overseeing deployment of the VMware IT curriculum across colleges. This gave Indian students resume-ready certifications directly aligned with U.S. enterprise infrastructure.
Autodesk
By embedding design and engineering software training into Indian institutions, Autodesk helped India mass-train designers to compete directly with U.S. engineering grads at a fraction of the wage.
The result? Americans replaced by design.
Betrayed by our own American companies: Displacement, discrimination, and deception
With AI-driven resume tools, skill-tagged certifications, and direct visibility into U.S. job portals, India didn’t compete for American jobs; it engineered dominance. In truth, the system wasn’t broken. It was redirected, away from American workers and toward India’s industrialized, subsidized, and government-backed workforce machine.
America didn’t just lose jobs. It lost the hiring system itself. The gatekeepers, job boards, training platforms and resume builders were quietly handed over to India. In return, U.S. corporations gained access to a cheaper, manipulated labor force pre-packaged to match whatever job description they posted.
India didn’t just fill jobs. It hijacked the system that decides who gets hired. Until these corporate-foreign MoUs are ended and U.S. workforce protections are restored, Americans will continue to be filtered out of their own economy one redirected job at a time.
Corporate enablers behind India’s ICT Academy workforce funnel
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