One of my first jobs (in the US) had a great strategy for getting low cost talent: 1. Hire cheap 2. Train on the job 3. Lock in your investment with a multi-ye

One of my first jobs (in the US) had a great strategy for getting low cost talent: 1. Hire cheap 2. Train on the job 3. Lock in your investment with a multi-year employment contract, broken down into options to "not renew" the contract at 6-month, then 12-month, intervals. Worked great, they got cheap talent and a means to weed people out, and I got valuable training I used for the next 15 years.