It’s a weird phenomenon: there’s a huge shortage of trained people in high tech, and at the same time, there’s this untouched supply of talents: the spouses of all those engineers who came to work for Dutch high-tech companies. Like…
Attracting highly skilled foreign workers is crucial for the Brainport region in Eindhoven, Netherlands, due to the presence of large international tech companies. But recruiting international talent is one thing, retaining it is another. At the “Including you” theme day…
“So much untapped talent that it drives you nuts,” says Ed Heerschap, LivingIn program coordinator at the Expat Center in Eindhoven. He and Kavitha Varathan, co-founder of the Expat Spouses Initiative, set up the Women for Women program. Heerschap: “The…