TechUK need a reality check!
"The government's migration quango says the UK needs more immigrants from outside the EU in four key IT areas, namely senior developers, product managers, network security specialists and "data scientists""
Looking at these four areas, it is obvious that all these senior roles require solid prior real-world experience and not just a couple of years post-grad. Looking at the world, there aren't many places outside of the EU and north America where you are likely to get people with these skills who are interested in relocating to the UK and be able to hit the ground running. So I would be interested in knowing just where TechUK think these people will be coming from.
No TechUK need to encourage it's supporters to train and promote internally here in the UK, so as to create the vacancies for recent graduates. This also has the benefit of creating a pool of expertise that can be exported...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
