Microsoft in Vancouver: recruiting high-tech immigrants

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jul 9, 2007 10:22 AM EDT

Article Source: The Globe and Mail

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Betting on Vancouver's location, lifestyle and links to India and China, Microsoft Corp. plans to open a development centre in Vancouver in a bid to draw skilled high-technology workers from around the world.

"When you look at the supply in the marketplace of students with computer science degrees, two-thirds of all the graduates in the world are coming out of India and China and the Asia-Pacific region," Microsoft Canada president Phil Sorgen said yesterday. "And Vancouver has a very strong connection and a very strong link to that part of the world."

Microsoft already has a small presence in Vancouver, with about 60 sales and marketing employees working from a downtown office.

The new development centre will increase the U.S. company's footprint in Vancouver - already home to studios for high-tech players such as Walt Disney Co., Electronic Arts Inc. and Vivendi SA - and help it get around tight quotas on high-tech workers in the U.S.

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Glinda

Hopefully, this may fuel growth in jobs for Canadians in high-tech also.

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