Morocco Seeks Foreign Tech Talent to Address IT Skills Shortage

It is clear that the question is not to stop the hemorrhage but rather to deal with it. Anapec and Apebi, the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills and the Moroccan Federation of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Offshoring, have jointly thought about a solution not to fight against the flight of IT profiles but apparently to be able to do without them. Judging by the solutions adopted: facilitating the recruitment of foreign skills and training more Moroccan profiles...

According to some sources, there are three foreign companies that come every two weeks to recruit, each time, about ten Moroccan engineers. And this way of leaving for new horizons is just one among others.

This flight of Moroccan skills, in addition to the strong demand for IT profiles in Morocco during this period of digital transformation, produces a drop in the competitiveness of local companies in addition to serious damage to Morocco’s attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment.

The question remains, among others, why these foreign skills desired in Morocco would choose it when many Moroccan skills are leaving it? If it is possible to attract them to Morocco, can we not retain the others as well?