Recruiting highly skilled professionals to your company can be a lot more complicated, and costly. The amount of work that needs to go into vetting the potential employees is extensive, which makes the work involved larger than if you were just recruiting people for a non skilled position. Also, in some industries, the competition for highly skilled employees can be very competitive, and companies may be forced into the situation of offering increasingly high wages and benefits for their potential employees. Poaching employees can also be a more significant influence on highly skilled job markets, and entire sections of law have arisen to establish the limits of what companies are and aren’t allowed. Highly skilled professionals, unlike the general population, has a lot more latitude to migrate across borders, so recruiting specific people from various countries and nationalities is a more significant reality, presenting an opportunity in which companies can easily capitalise on.