The Global Talent Illusion: How Western Recruitment Is Undermining Its Own Future
In recent years, policymakers, corporate executives, decision makers, and tech giants across the Western world have embraced what they proudly call the “global talent” and “change” agenda. These phrases are marketed as modern, progressive strategies, promising innovation, diversity, and transformation. Yet behind the polished language lies a far more troubling reality: a recruitment model that often prioritises cost-cutting over competence, and profit over long-term societal wellbeing. Under the guise of seeking global talent, many organisations have increasingly imported low-cost labour from abroad, driven primarily by the desire to pay extremely low salaries. Too often, the workers hired through these channels are either unable or unwilling to deliver the level of quality required. As a result, vital services and industries that once held high standards are now struggling to maintain the level of excellence that the Western world was built upon. Corporate decision makers are playing ...