Talent Retention

Brain Drain happens when a country fails to secure its most highly educated citizens leaving a vacuum of competency in several sectors. This is felt heavily in the ICT sector with a higher dependence on outsourcing outfits playing an increased role in staffing Caribbean organizations. Brain drain has a wide reaching impact on economies with more monies leaving the region and building other, more developed companies, that can retain and attract the talent required. It is proposed that a slight change of approach to talent retention may be beneficial to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region.