Recruiters have offered their solutions to help workers from the MG Rover company plant.

Ross Bagley, regional business manager for Birmingham-based NOW Recruitment, believes that the Longbridge workers could easily find other work in the area.

“We have a candidate shortage of quality experienced labour within the automotive industry within the Birmingham area,” said Bagley.

“NOW could do a recruitment campaign there. I would be more than happy to send a team of people down to that site and go through the vacancies that we have got.”

Mike Padhr, senior consultant for Speed Recruitment in Birmingham, has already noted that car manufacturers appear to be downsizing their production in the West Midlands area.

“The service industry is thriving at the moment in the area, and workers could look to move into that sector.”

Some of the 6,000 MG Rover workers could also be lured as far afield as Australia.

Specialist migration agency Visa Bureau has said that skilled workers from the plant would be “in high demand”.

Australia is keen to attract skilled UK car-industry workers, including engineers, electricians, fitters, panel-beaters and welders, the agency said.