Flood of IT immigrants from India

[DodgyAgent]

Employers who cannot recruit enough people with "digital skills" have been petitioning for the UK government to make it easier to import people from abroad. interestingly this is being partly driven by companies such as Infosys. I do not know how this can be justified considering there must be thousands of EU skilled workers living in depressed economies that would come and work in the UK. Clearly this has not been considered other than being dismissed by anecdotes and irrelevant statistics such as "only a small proportion" off EEA graduates do IT!

Digital tech skills added to Shortage Occupation Lists for UK and Scotland

It is a thinly veiled campaign to bring in more cheap skills

[SueEllen]

Interesting

Chris Hickey, CEO of Robert Walters UK, said that after several years of under-investment in training and entry-level recruitment, businesses are now playing catch-up.

[SimonMac]

It would be good to know what these "digital tech skills" actually are

[vetran]

It would be good to know what these "digital tech skills" actually are

being cheap!

[SimonMac]

being cheap!

Cheaper than Suity and PC

[scooterscot]

Where are you coming from DA? Surely this is good news for you? I doubt very much your company takes preferential European skilled workers over non-European workers.

[DodgyAgent]

Where are you coming from DA? Surely this is good news for you? I doubt very much your company takes preferential European skilled workers over non-European workers.

UK only me! keep the foreigners out with the exception of lap dancers from estonia

[Batcher]

It's a result of the rampaging British Empire of days gone by. If Great Britain hadn't raped their country they wouldn't have the rights to come over here.

HTH

[original PM]

It would be good to know what these "digital tech skills" actually are

The Partial review of the Shortage Occupation Lists for the UK and for Scotland report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended that the job titles product manager, data scientist, senior developer and cyber security specialist be added to the list.

Apparently there are some of them.

However I give you a guarantee that if you polled all the CEO's etc. who have had their say in this piece each one would give you a different expectation of each of these roles.

As others have said what they want is cheap labour - funnily enough I know someone whose job is to 'Outsource' and he gets so frustrated that the little brown men in India do not work every hour god sends for peanuts to make him look good.

He is a w4naker mind you.

[scooterscot]

UK only me! keep the foreigners out with the exception of lap dancers from estonia

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