Attracting highly skilled immigrants is crucial for countries looking to enhance their talent pool. While governments express a desire to welcome skilled foreign workers, many create barriers that hinder this process. Only a select few nations actively implement strategies to attract top talent, leading to significant advantages for those countries. Immigrants bring unique experiences and knowledge that complement native talent, fostering innovation and diversity within teams. To maximize benefits, it is essential to recruit from the broadest talent pool possible, acknowledging that both immigrants and natives together can create more effective and varied teams.
Skilled immigrants bring more than just their expertise to job markets. But governments miss opportunities to attract them—or make them feel entirely unwelcome. In America it seems like the standard tip fraction just keeps going up and up (11:36). Where will it end? And as part of our “schools briefs” primer on AI, we answer your questions, starting with facial recognition (18:28).
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