Why should a company hire foreign talent?
Aditi Banerjee, Co-Founder, Magic Billion Typically, clients who use Magic Billion’s services to hire foreign talent , do it with one overt objective – their cities/countries are short of the kind of talent they are looking for but business needs demand talent for those roles, so they are looking to close the deficit from other countries. In my opinion, this is a bit short sighted. Our truly “favourite” companies are those who hire foreign talent with the following three aspects in mind (in addition to the point above) – I don’t have scientific evidence for these points but these are basis my discussions with clients and my own experience having worked in four multicultural organisations: 1. New perspectives to grow existing business lines – this can help jumpstart a business line which is plateauing or worse, declining. Hiring foreign talent will definitely enable a fresh outlook – given their experiences – which are most often unique especially for a traditional domes
