Employees market: Employees in Israel are fighting over skilled employees. Pictured is the head of a "Cyber Horse", made from thousands of infected computer and cell phone bits at the entrance to the annual Cyberweek conference at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
TEL AVIV: In the high tech hub of Tel Aviv, where companies have been responsible for ground-breaking advances like the USB stick, Or Offer never thought it would be hard to find workers for his fast-growing Internet data firm SimilarWeb.
But an alarming lack of engineers, technicians and even doctors, which is jeopardising Israel's place among the world's technological elite, sent him looking abroad.
