Over the past few months, I have been observing a phenomenon that I initially considered anecdotal, but which has gradually become significant enough to deserve some reflection.
Through the articles published on my blogs and the content shared on professional social media platforms, I have come into contact with an increasing number of poultry professionals from very different parts of the world. Some write from Asia, others from the Middle East, while others are based in Africa or Eastern Europe. Their backgrounds are just as diverse: farm technicians, biosecurity specialists, veterinarians, agribusiness marketing professionals, hatchery experts, and even specialists in egg or chick sexing.
Many of them ask essentially the same question: Do you know companies that are hiring? Could you recommend my profile? Could you suggest organizations I should contact?
What is most striking is not the request itself. What stands out is the willingness many of these professionals express to relocate thousands of kilometers away in order to continue working within the poultry sector.
Faced with this phenomenon, I believe it is worth taking a moment to reflect.
Why do professionals with highly specialized skills continue to invest their careers in this industry? Why are they seeking international opportunities in a sector that, at least in much of the public narrative, is often portrayed as problematic, heavily criticized, or even destined to be replaced by alternative models?
A first answer probably lies in the very nature of modern poultry production.
Those who work in the sector every day know that today’s poultry industry is very different from the image that often reaches consumers. It is a supply chain that invests heavily in research, genetics, nutrition, animal welfare, automation, artificial intelligence, biosecurity, and sustainability. It is a constantly evolving professional environment that demands increasingly advanced technical skills.
In other words, those who know the industry from the inside see a vibrant sector, not a declining one.
There is also a second consideration, perhaps even more interesting.
Today, poultry production is one of the most globalized sectors within the food industry. Knowledge developed in one country can often be applied successfully in many others. Veterinarians, hatchery specialists, and biosecurity professionals frequently acquire expertise that is valuable far beyond national borders.
This international dimension has created something resembling a global marketplace for skills, where professionals from very different geographical regions seek opportunities for growth, exchange, and professional development.
Perhaps the most revealing aspect of the phenomenon lies in the nature of the professionals who reach out.
Many possess highly specialized expertise. They do not simply present themselves as people looking for a job. They describe themselves as experts in activities that require experience, practical knowledge, and specialized training. This points to a reality that is often underestimated: the modern poultry sector does not simply require labor. It requires competence.
This may also explain why companies in many parts of the world report difficulties in finding qualified personnel while, at the same time, many professionals are searching for channels through which they can make their skills visible.
The result is an interesting paradox: available expertise on one side and industry demand on the other, yet the two do not always find each other.
Naturally, I do not have the means to assess the résumés I receive, nor is it my role to act as a recruitment intermediary. However, the phenomenon deserves attention because it reveals something that rarely emerges in public debate.
It reveals the existence of an international professional community composed of people who continue to study, specialize, and invest their future in poultry production. A community that, beyond controversies and ideological narratives, appears to view this sector not as a remnant of the past, but as a field in which opportunities, innovation, and development can still be built.
For this reason, the most interesting question may not be how many professionals are currently seeking employment in the poultry industry, but why so many professionals from different countries and cultures continue to regard it as a field worth believing in.
The most remarkable aspect of this phenomenon is that these individuals are not simply looking for a job. They are expressing confidence. When professionals from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds state that they are willing to move to the other side of the world in order to remain active in the poultry sector, they are implicitly saying that they see opportunity, growth, and a professional future worth investing in. It is a conviction born from direct experience and, for that very reason, it also serves as a quiet response to narratives that continue to describe the industry more through prejudice and slogans than through knowledge of the facts.
One final thought: if the poultry sector were truly as outdated, primitive, resistant to improvement, or lacking in prospects as its critics often claim, then why would qualified professionals from so many different countries continue to want to build their careers within it?
