Companies ‘should hire’ from ranks of jobless

COMPANIES should put more effort into hiring unemployed people locally rather than engaging in large recruitment drives abroad, the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) has said.

INOU general secretary Eric Conroy said many firms were far too quick to seek staff abroad rather than look in unemployment blackspots in Ireland.

“When you go on a push to China you can get people very quickly. It can be quite easy to pull people from half way around the world rather than to interact with disparate people throughout the country,” he said.