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It's not clear that points systems like this really select for optimal benefit, though. They tend to be biased toward the qualifications that are already well r
by microtherion 6y ago
It's not clear that points systems like this really select for optimal benefit, though. They tend to be biased toward the qualifications that are already well represented in the country.
Looking at immigrants I've met, yes, qualifications count for something, but sheer hustle and ambition can play a role as well, and often those propagate into the next generation too.
In hiring decisions, I was told to try to select for potential, not qualifications. Points systems are the classical "select for qualifications" move.
- rowanG077 6y agoPotential can be a part of the point system. You yourself made some sort of crude scale of potential when you were interviewing people. Nothing wrong with formalizing that.
- microtherion 6y agoI'm not sure how one would formalize it, even less so for the children of immigrants.
- rowanG077 6y agoIf you can't be formalize it is is unfair.
- microtherion 6y agoYes, it's considerably harder to administrate such a system in an objective manner. A points system has the advantage of being objective. But that doesn't necessarily make it fair or a well chosen policy.
- rowanG077 6y agoI'd say it's impossible to administrate such a system in an objective manner. If you could administer it in an objective manner then you can quantify and formalize it. A point system doesn't mean the parameters are well chosen but by it's very definition it's more fair then an interview without any formal requirements.
- pc86 6y agoI don't think anyone said they're optimal benefit. But on the whole increasing the education and income level of your immigration pool is going to be more beneficial to your country than the opposite.
- danielscrubs 6y agoThere is a investor visa also, at least from what my friends tell me for those “hustlers”. That potential is usually extremely subjective and unproven.