Job trouble in the mechanical sector?

mawk

So I have been applying for jobs all over the engineering sector, and it just seems to be tough going. No one is hiring without a phd and 50 years experience..

Has anyone here been hit with layoffs or similar within your companies?

judas101

I'm a recent graduate and am having terrible trouble finding a job.

Havent even gotten an interview yet.

May be forced to jump ship to England or Germany.

von Neumann

It's very tough out there............I've been working a few years now and wouldn't fancy trying to start again.

I busted my chops looking for my first job and ended up being a programmer, from there to B.S. so never did find a mech eng job.

Sadly for all of us, I think the hay day for mech eng's was the late 80's early 90's, with all the new manufacturing facilities being built.

On a positive note, your young and well educated, and there are still some very worthwhile career options open to you. So don't rule out a career change.

I personal think that your first job (and that's all it is, your first job), is pot luck, unless you know people.

Sorry, I couldn't be more constructive.

mawk

judas101 wrote: »

I'm a recent graduate and am having terrible trouble finding a job.

Havent even gotten an interview yet.

May be forced to jump ship to England or Germany.

yeah, there seem to be precisely, zero graduate jobs going. this was not helped by companies canning their graduate programs. hell, if they just changed their contract to pay a subsistence wage for the privilege of experience they would get cheap as free labour and graduates could get a starting point

A Primal Nut

So much for the massive demand for engineers that the media keep talking about...although most of my class of electrical engineers did get jobs...some abroad.

Siemens and ESB are two companies i know of who have graduate programs for mechanical engineers.

von Neumann

A Primal Nut wrote: »

So much for the massive demand for engineers that the media keep talking about...quote]

Ya they got me with that one too . Shouldn't grumble too much, got a good education and a few good nights out .

ibh

Building services consultants and contractors are still reasonably busy. Especially if you consider a move to London with all the Olympic work.

lg123

ibh wrote: »

Building services consultants and contractors are still reasonably busy. Especially if you consider a move to London with all the Olympic work.

in ireland they are generally all letting people go, any that are recruiting are looking for middle management grade up (principal, associate, maybe an odd senior)

von Neumann

lg123 wrote: »

in ireland they are generally all letting people go, any that are recruiting are looking for middle management grade up (principal, associate, maybe an odd senior)

I'd have agree with Ig123.....can't think of any taking people on.

crisco10

A Primal Nut wrote: »

So much for the massive demand for engineers that the media keep talking about...although most of my class of electrical engineers did get jobs...some abroad.

Siemens and ESB are two companies i know of who have graduate programs for mechanical engineers.

Yeah,i managed to get into the Siemens Grad programme. there are only 2 of us mechs on it. So I was quite lucky really.
Although, Kingspan also offered me a job...I think as with any job hunting its pot luck!! i have classmates still looking but plenty have gotten jobs too...

Offy

I started in Mechanical engineering in 1990 and Ive seen this before. Things will change in a year or two but for the time being theres not much out there. It was like this in the mid 90's too, took 4-5 years to improve back then so I went to England. When I came back in '99 I had my choice of jobs. Manufacturing in Ireland will never be as many as there were back then because of third world countries, we cant compete with the labour costs. To show how bad it actually is: a couple of years ago I designed a computer device known as a refreshable Braille display, present displays cost from €2500 to €16000, I could put my one on the market for less than €500 (€50 component costs) but I cant get any investors. Enterprise Ireland will not support computer hardware. Dont believe all you read in the papers. Im an engineer with nearly 20 years experience and Im teaching now to make ends meet :mad:

mawk

Offy wrote: »

To show how bad it actually is: a couple of years ago I designed a computer device known as a refreshable Braille display, present displays cost from €2500 to €16000, I could put my one on the market for less than €500 (€50 component costs) but I cant get any investors. Enterprise Ireland will not support computer hardware. Dont believe all you read in the papers.

That sounds like a real shame, I presume you took the idea to the national council for the blind and tried to get them to apply a bit of force to companies? Having their approval and potential for sales should help

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did you by any chance drop the cost by making this out of a recycled electric typewriter?

Offy

The National Council were great from the R&D side but they have no funding available for commercialising. Dropped the cost by using a kick start for an electric kettle.

ze4400

Sounds like one for the Irish version of dragon's den..........