In a week when some bright spark has calculated that half of the UK’s unemployed youths in the 18 to 25 age group are contemplating working abroad (how will they meet another country’s entry requirements for example?), a survey suggesting 88% of Indian workers are prepared to emigrate to find a job is not particularly encouraging.
The survey, carried out by Kelly Services, interviewed 97,000 people spread across 30 countries with 2,000 of these respondents living in India, although that might well change, it seems.
The most popular destination was Europe with 36% of the 2,000 surveyed saying that they would choose to move there – almost twice as many as those who preferred the US. The survey’s other findings were Asia Pacific (20%), USA (19%), Middle East (7%), South America (5%) and Africa (1%).
With their propensity to move to wherever the jobs are, their go-getting attitude, and their track record of high levels of tolerance to otherwise intolerable conditions, their attraction to UK employers is obvious.
If you are British, young and out of work, it is no good saying that the jobs are too far away. It is a sad fact of life as things are at the moment. If you sit waiting for job vacancies to mysteriously and suddenly appear in your locality, they won’t. No matter how great the sacrifice or risk, you have to make the effort to get a decent job. So you need to be prepared to relocate.
Unfair it may be, but the high level of interest in UK job vacancies from Eastern Europe and India, means that if you won’t budge a few hundred miles, they’ll happily travel thousands to get work while you sit at home complaining.
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