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Some of the fastest growing financial technology firms in Wales are at risk of being held back by skills shortages, a leading specialist lawyer has warned.
Cerian Jones said so-called fintech companies have told her they are "chasing fish in the same small pool".
She said those firms not actually trying to fill a recruitment gap "are trying to retain staff so they don't go elsewhere".
Cardiff is facing competition from London and Bristol among other cities.
Ms Jones, a patents attorney and partner at UDL in Cardiff, said: "When I talk to software companies about what their biggest challenge is, nine times out of 10 it's recruitment.
"These are very skilled positions, needing skilled graduates with the right coding and development skills."
She said there was a lure of working in London and firms in south Wales were having to be creative in trying to entice people "in a candidates' market".
Some were finding it difficult, even when offering £60,000 salaries.
There you have it. You can code to make banks richer. In Cardiff.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @08:57PM (5 children)
This can't be all that hard. The toughest part will be getting your message to the right people. Oh, and not getting arrested for doing so, since the UK lacks free speech. You need to target people who need safety, vehicles, good schools, and large houses.
If a family has kids, you can carefully suggest that Londonistan isn't suitable for that unless you are truly rich. Showcase affordable good schools, affordable backyards, affordable parking, relative lack of rape, etc.
You can target people who are trying and failing to save up for kids. Many such people are not even poor, because people keep raising their standards as they get more. One always wants to do a bit better, and have the finances nicer for kids, no matter how well one is doing. This is why many people put off having kids until it is too late. An employer can take advantage of this by advertising a nice cost-of-living situation, and of course the employees still won't feel that they are ready to have kids.
Older people and women tend to feel very unsafe on public transportation. Offer free parking. Offer a loaner car to new employees moving from Londonistan and other places where people might not have cars.
Londonistan's mayor actually said that terrorism is "part and parcel" of living in a big city. WTF!!! (since World War II there has been only that one subway gas attack in Tokyo, a really huge city, so this can't be true) Welcome people to safety.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @09:54PM
But, but...Diversity! And equality! Look how beautiful it is!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @11:25PM
Do the invaders also cause homosexuality?
(Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday November 19 2017, @01:51AM (2 children)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is doing an unbelievable job. Bringing radical Islamic, and Islamist, extremists & terrorists to what was one of the world's greatest cities. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. And Sadiq welcomes them. He says there's "no reason to be alarmed." He says it's "part and parcel of living in a big city." Shocking statements. MSM is working hard to sell!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:45AM (1 child)
Some, I assume, are good people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @07:56AM
Some are.
Some came to London to escape the Islamic nutjobs running rampant in their home countries, some of them being on death lists back home for being 'too western', some having members of their families shot for the same crime..
Some of them had to struggle with the Usual Government Suspects to be allowed to stay in this country, and after all that, only to find the fuckers and their 'idiotologies' that caused them to flee their homelands now following them here, adding insult to injury, these bastards then being welcomed with
at best, the deluded ignorance of the self-same Usual Government Suspects who were so bloody obstructive in their cases following the incompetently and totally misguided ideals behind some sort of inclusionist multicultural agenda
at worst, with open arms by their 'fellow travelers' already ensconced here.
Here's an educational London story for you
I was once told by one Muslim 'watch what you say in front of a.n.other Muslim' when I asked why, the response was 'because he hates you..' bugger me, I thought, I don't think I've ever done anything to annoy him, so I asked 'why does he hate me?, I don't think I've ever...' the Muslim I was speaking to broke in 'no,no,no not you personally, he just hates all you westerners...he'll smile to your face then stab you in the back, fucking Persian...'
Guess which of the two had absolutely no problems getting to stay in the country?
For the record, I'm an atheist, used to be of the militant anti-religious type, but age has mellowed me and I'll now only go into attack-dog mode if they direct their MSF-bothering antics in my direction, so, whilst I might not believe in their religions, I do have friends of quite a large number of different religious persuasions, and four of the best human beings I've ever come across on this dirtball over the past five decades are deeply religious (two Christians, two Muslim),saying that, four of the nastiest POS humans I've ever come across were also deeply religious (Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Buddhist), so I'm not down on any particular single religious group.