attract talent

“Talent competitiveness” means “a country, [o a una unidad territorial] develop, attract and strengthen human capital that contributes to productivity and well-being”. Public and private decision makers are expected to use the information provided by this index to evaluate the effectiveness of these policies and practices and to prioritize action. It is clear that these policies should be aimed at preventing brain drain.

Well then: According to this survey, Switzerland has been the country with the most and best success in attracting and retaining talent for the sixth year in a row. Singapore, Denmark, USA, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Australia, UK… Spain ranked 29th Germany (14), Belgium (16), France (19), Japan (24) and Portugal (26). The only major European country behind us is Italy.

Another index competing with the previous one has recently emerged: the IMD World Talent Rankings (WTR) 2022, created by the IMD World Center for Competitiveness, confirming that Switzerland remains a leader in attracting and retaining talent among the 63 economies studied. for the sixth consecutive year; followed by Sweden, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark. Spain has remained in 32nd place for six years.although leading France and Portugal have significantly improved their position this year.

Both indices are made by collecting data from three key criteria: the investment and improvement factor in the education system and the quality of education; The financially attractive factor is wages and quality of life, i.e. retain local talent and attract foreigners; and the factor that measures the overall readiness and competencies of the workforce.

Just as Spain has never had a genuine interest in increasing investment in R&D+i, effective policies to attract talent have not been established by the public sector, and that is why we passively and unresponsively participate in such demoralizing demonstrations. Because our doctors have been to the United States, the United Kingdom, or Germany, in addition to triple their salary or more, they must be assured that they have received adequate treatment, enjoyed decent working conditions, owned research facilities, etc. for as a decapitalization of our health. Worse still, they say “there is a shortage of doctors” by surrender. as if we were victims of an incurable biblical plagueThe problem is that we don’t offer them the minimum incentive to stay.

This disdain for talent, this disregard for the evidence that our best researchers don’t show up, slows our progress towards perfection and condemns us above all to be a country of services. With the peculiarity that the best specialists in almost all branches of knowledge leave Spain, creating a large number of orphans in the university system, thereby closing an annoying vicious circle. But it is a circle that will surely break if the State and autonomous communities realize that one of their primary tasks is to adequately treat professionals in different activities who are also the living skeleton of a thriving middle class. Spain is disappearing because it is losing its workforce level to adapt to the service economy on which we base our well-being.

What makes sense in these circumstances would be to look around Spain and take an example from countries that have done well and advanced in the rankings. Some foreign models introduce innovation elements that must be imported by declining systems, such as the Spanish model. Finally, instead waging ridiculous ideological wars It will be to search outside of the natural, most appropriate ways that lead nowhere, so that our own talent will bear fruit that will move us forward without rest.