Many businesses choose to recruit from within their own company rather than sourcing staff from overseas. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

These days a lot of firms seek applicants from their own nation instead of foreign workers. While I accept that hiring local can bring a positive effect to the business, I believe that it is more likely to have detrimental impacts.

To begin with, the most striking merit of this phenomenon is that it helps the ethnic minority people to enter the workforce. For example, several business groups in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai have offered local ethnic residents jobs in rubber and coffee exports, which creates a steady and stable means of income for many in the region.

However, I would argue that this benefit is eclipsed by some drawbacks. One evident weakness is that it would reduce the ability to find highly skilled and efficient laborers. As a manufacturer had mentioned on BBC News that we could find out a wide range of talented workers from many countries all over the world rather than looking for employees in our own nation. In addition, human resources from overseas is usually cheaper than those from the firms’ homeland. For instance, Chinese factories frequently recruit workers from some developing countries like Vietnam because the costs of hiring are low and the foreign employees can do the jobs that the local people don’t want to do.

In conclusion, although providing employment for ethnic minorities is such a good point of hiring the local, the down side of this trend would emerge consequently in terms of the lack of well-qualified laborers and the high prices.