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Reinvesting
in Liverpool
By Paul Morrissey: Tubedale Films
Part of DLIB's agenda is to address student retention in Liverpool. There is a feeling among many SME's that Liverpool doesn't keep hold of its finest graduate talent, creating a brain drain to luring...
Find and keep
people in place! As with many premiership Football academies local businesses
need to find, nurture and develop talent from within at an early stage
to reap the economic benefits from future growth at affordable resource
prices.
I returned to Liverpool in 1989 after 15 years of working abroad in the telecommunications industry. Liverpool has got a great name wherever you go in the world "you're a scouser, you must be a good guy", but in the UK the situation is slightly different. My intention upon my return was to give something back to the city that given me a place to stand in the wider world. I started a new telecommunications software development company based in Liverpool, with Liverpool talent. Most of my business was overseas so it didn't matter where I operated from in the UK but Liverpool was where I wanted to be
I formed a partnership with LJMU and brought in talented young computer undergraduates to work in the company as well as participating in the Government TCS scheme, which enable the company to bring in two postgraduate students. Ten years on these guys are still committed to Liverpool and the company has sold the software system they have developed to Telecommunications and Network Management companies throughout the world. The key to this success is the nurturing of homegrown talent and providing them with a local domain to express their skills in a challenging working environment. Unlike the Football analogy our employees don't move to other clubs and dilute the local economy, conversely most of our people that leave do so to set up their own companies locally and enhance the local working and employment environment.
We are in the process of establishing the same model in the Film industry. any budding talent can apply...
Paul Morrissey: Tubedale Films
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