India may no longer be best option for recruiting IT talent
18 September 2014
Recruitment agencies looking for IT professionals may have to start finding new overseas markets, a study by business and tech recruiter ReThink Recruitment has found.
Thu, 18 Sep 2014
Recruitment agencies looking for IT professionals may have to start finding new overseas markets, a study by business and tech recruiter ReThink Recruitment has found.
It found more IT workers from India were choosing to stay in their own country, meaning it was becoming less reliable for organisations to plug talent with such workers.
It credited the workers’ choice to improvements in the economy and fewer visas being granted.
ReThink Recruitment managing director Michael Bennett said it was becoming a pressing issue for UK businesses that historically recruited from India.
“Companies here will need to identify new markets where there is a healthy stream of technical talent into the workforce,” he said in a statement.
“Emerging economies economies in the APAC region like Malaysia and Indonesia are two potential areas that UK businesses could look to from which talent could potentially be sourced.”
He said that was a short-term fix and in the long term, organisations would need to invest in talent and source workers domestically.
Recruitment agencies looking for IT professionals may have to start finding new overseas markets, a study by business and tech recruiter ReThink Recruitment has found.
It found more IT workers from India were choosing to stay in their own country, meaning it was becoming less reliable for organisations to plug talent with such workers.
It credited the workers’ choice to improvements in the economy and fewer visas being granted.
ReThink Recruitment managing director Michael Bennett said it was becoming a pressing issue for UK businesses that historically recruited from India.
“Companies here will need to identify new markets where there is a healthy stream of technical talent into the workforce,” he said in a statement.
“Emerging economies economies in the APAC region like Malaysia and Indonesia are two potential areas that UK businesses could look to from which talent could potentially be sourced.”
He said that was a short-term fix and in the long term, organisations would need to invest in talent and source workers domestically.
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