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Tenerife Lures Young Talent Back Home with Madrid Jobs Fair

Tenerife Launches Madrid Drive to Bring Young Talent Home

The Island Council of Tenerife has launched a new initiative in Madrid designed to reconnect with young people from the island who live elsewhere and to facilitate a return for those who wish to come back with a job opportunity. The action began on Wednesday with a meeting between young Tenerife residents living in Madrid and companies either based on the island or in need of recruiting professionals for growing sectors.

Building a Stable Network for Island Talent

The goal is to create a stable contact network between the talent that left Tenerife and the business community linked to the territory. The President of the Island Council, Rosa Dávila, explained that the intention is to bring together people who left the island to study, train, or work and to open a pathway for them to return if they so wish. She stated that the aim is to build a community that allows this talent to maintain its link with Tenerife and find real opportunities for return.

Dávila added that, according to a survey used by the corporation, seven out of ten people from Tenerife who have left want to return at some point—a statistic the council wants to leverage to drive active return policies linked to quality employment.

New Opportunities in Growth Sectors

The council emphasises that the island is generating new opportunities in fields such as biomedicine, the aerospace sector, and audiovisual production. These areas already demand qualified profiles and could become a route back for many young people who have developed their careers elsewhere. The Councillor for Youth and Training, Serafín Mesa, highlighted that this type of meeting precisely seeks to connect talent and business to encourage the return of professionals to Tenerife.

In his view, a lack of direct contact between the two sides often makes it difficult for these opportunities to materialise. Mesa insisted that these sectors are poised to generate many jobs in the coming years, which opens a door for those who had to leave the island and are now considering returning to develop their life projects there.

Bridging the Gap Between Companies and Talent

One of the event organisers, Sixto Lecuona, co-founder and operations director of Hunger4Innovation, argued that many companies need qualified profiles and have difficulty locating talent, including in the Canary Islands. Therefore, he considers it key to promote meeting spaces like this, which allow not only for connection with prepared young people but also for creating a useful medium and long-term link between companies and professionals.

Among the attendees was Jorge Castillo, a young person from Tenerife resident in Madrid, who highlighted the calibre of talent from the island and the importance of creating a community outside of it. In his opinion, bringing together Tenerife professionals in Madrid can help each individual continue to grow in their field while keeping the possibility of returning open.

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