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APSCo: Government should advertise IT jobs in UK

12/03/2010 APSCo: Government should advertise IT jobs in UKGovernment should seek to recruit people who work in IT from UK candidates before bringing workers from outside the EU, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has said.

This comes after the group claimed that thousands of software engineers and systems analysts have been laid off after people from outside the EU have come to work in the UK.

Data obtained from the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act showed that 35,430 non-EU IT workers were granted work permits in 2008.

However, this number is down eight per cent from the peak in 2007.

Ann Swain, chief executive of the organisation, said: "It seems crazy that with the economy in a severe downturn and thousands of IT workers having already lost their jobs we are still bringing three times as many foreign IT workers to the UK than during the dot com boom when we had a chronic skills shortage."

She said that this was a "contentious issue" since workers are finding it harder to find jobs during the recession.


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