Why people from outside the UK are required to do scientific jobs?

Why cannot the British take care of jobs in IT for instance? Why people are required from the outside?

Why people from outside the UK are required to do scientific jobs?
I'm a recruiter in the IT industry and actually in the vast majority of cases, jobs based in Britain are filled with British citizens. This is mainly because people from outside of Britain do not speak good enough English. Also, EU laws make it very hard to employ people from outside of the EU - so people from countries like India who would love to come here are often unable to. And even though EU citizens can go and work in any EU country, most people choose to stay in their own countries - the only people who want to come here are unskilled workers who think they'll get a better life elsewhere, not IT professionals.





At a company I worked for previously, we did sponsor a few employees to come from India, and this was because this particular company offered a very low wage for the skillset they required - I'm talking about £10k less per annum than their competitors. Thus they found it hard to attract British staff who would obviously choose to work for a competitor - bearing in mind that unemployment in the UK is very low and people really can pick and choose what company they'd like to work for. So I think the answer to your question is, the British *can* take care of jobs in IT - they just *choose* not to.
Reply:What are you on about? We don't need overseas IT workers, or are you talking about the likes of Indian call centres? We don't need them, but they are 75% cheaper than UK call centres, but in many cases are a complete failure as the language barrier is too big. Many companies are having to bring call centres back to the UK and have the extra costs as no-one can stand the sub-standard overseas ones. As they say, you get what you pay for.
Reply:Everything is economics - supply and demand.





All the best British scientists go over the pond to the United States for many reasons - far better research departments and grants, and a government and society that really fosters ingenuity and development.





Factor this over the course of the last 30 years, British universities begin to lose their best researchers. As they begin to slide, enrollments in science courses over here falls like a stone, coupled with a drop in admissions standards - compare Physics undergraduates today to years ago!





The result: labour in these very academic research posts needs to be imported.
Reply:Scientific jobs = I.T. ????