Starter Kit. Idea 367 of 500. Cluster 18
A returning-professional registry that hospitals, universities and firms at home can search
The mechanism, from the book
1.5 million people abroad who know how rich countries work, and who send home money and little else.
The first step
Ask the HR managers of three hospitals, universities or firms at home which roles they cannot fill, and whether they would search a list of Sri Lankans abroad who are considering return. Then collect 20 CVs from professionals abroad in those fields through Sri Lankan associations, with permission. If one employer asks for an interview, or pays to search, the registry has a buyer.
- Who pays first
- A hospital, university or firm at home with a post it has failed to fill locally, which would pay a search fee for a returning candidate.
- What leaves today
- Professionals abroad never hear of the posts at home; a searchable registry is the route that brings their experience back to the island.
Ask first
- Data Protection Authority. Ask what consent is needed to share CVs with employers.
- Sri Lanka Medical Council. Ask what doctors working abroad must do to practise here again.
Check before you spend
Each professional's consent before any CV is shared, and what registration returning doctors, nurses or engineers need before they can work here.
Find out these three numbers
- Which roles can hospitals and firms here not fill?
- How many professionals abroad agree to be listed?
- Would an employer pay to search the list?
A comparison from the book
Who leaves. Chapter Eight
"More and more of the people leaving are the ones with the most training."
Those skills are not gone, only abroad; a searchable list turns them back into candidates.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.