Job market to pick up in the new year???

Lovin' It

Folks,
just looking for your view on whether or not the jobs market will be pick up in the new year?

I'm out of work at the moment and everyone is telling me that the jobs market will pick up in the Jan/Feb once company budgets/plans etc are known. Do you see companies recruiting in the new year?

Feed back from employers would be nice here.

Whats your view?
Ps: qualified as a chemical and process engineer

AARRRGH

It's impossible to tell, but my gut instinct tells me it'll be more closer to the end of 2009 before it picks up...

Shelflife

Hi im involved in the retail sector and even though we are making our shop bigger i wont be taking on any staff until im absolutlely sure that they are needed, any slack will be taken up by me and my family.

talking to others , the general trend is for owners to get back behind the counter and put in the hours again.

Bulmers

this is only the start of it, last few months, these things historically go in cycles, bearing in mind we've come off a ten year crest, will take a while to turn around..rough times ahead i think anyway, hopefully i'm wrong

cooperguy

Not a chance Im afraid. Unemployment is predicted to rise to nearly 10% next year. End of 2009, start of 2010 at the earliest unfortunatly.

zAbbo

Job market hasn't hit bottom yet, so a little while to go...

daveirl

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greatgoal

not looking good,the first 3 months of the year are always bad but going to be a lot worse this year,with little or no improvement for the remaining 9,this will take a few years to get sorted imo.

oldscoil

I'm gonna go for a more optimistic view. :rolleyes:

The following info is meant to be more statisitical than political.

There is a view that a lot of folk from Poland that go home for xmas, will not return in the new year.

This is due to the down turn in our ecomony and the reduction of the PIT (Personal Income Tax) from January the 1st.

So there may be tens of thousands of postions opening in the beginning of 2009, March / Apirl. Albeit thousands of lowered paid jobs, 20,000 pa+
.......but as long as I am doing something that covers my mortgage, then i can sleep at night at night.

MagicMarker

oldscoil wrote: »

I'm gonna go for a more optimistic view. :rolleyes:

The following info is meant to be more statisitical than political.

There is a view that a lot of folk from Poland that go home for xmas, will not return in the new year.

This is due to the down turn in our ecomony and the reduction of the PIT (Personal Income Tax) from January the 1st.

So there may be tens of thousands of postions opening in the beginning of 2009, March / Apirl. Albeit thousands of lowered paid jobs, 20,000 pa+
.......but as long as I am doing something that covers my mortgage, then i can sleep at night at night.

So, tens of thousands of poles are leaving over the next 4 months?

Riiight....

Eoin

MagicMarker wrote: »

So, tens of thousands of poles are leaving over the next 4 months?

Riiight....

Read this article - I know it wasn't a good sample, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

Anyway - the only positive thing I can add is that Christmas is generally a crap time to be looking for work as budgets are closed, managers are on holidays etc. Purely on that basis, you might expect it to be a little better in the New Year, but unfortunately all bets are off at the moment.

SheroN

I think it depends on what kind of work you're looking for. I think in some industries recruitment budgets will be approved for early in the new year. So there will be a little bit more activity than there is now. How much more, no one knows.

ntlbell

impossible to tell but the general outlook for a vast majority is not looking good.

i personally think we're in very serious deep waters and looking to the end of 09 will only see the start of some of the big big lay off's..

bend over and kiss your ass good bye imo

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

No idea what I am going to do, I am even trying all the supermarkets and minimum wage jobs, there's nothing. The jobs that they advertise are taken up by some people who are just really experienced or educated more.

I have been told by a recruitment agency that things may improve in the new year, but I don't agree with that. I think it will get worse but I am hoping that it will not.

ongarite

IMO 2009 is going to be really really bad for nearly every indusrty worldwide.
In the industry I work in, sales projections are going to be down 25% at best on this year which was pretty bad. 2010 is to maybe the start of a recovery but it will be from a very low base at the stage.
All the companies in this industry are laying off people (10-20%) and maybe more by FY2010.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

What is everyone going to do for the year then? I can see a serious increase in suicide. Morbid I know.

SheroN

Franklin Tall Vista wrote: »

What is everyone going to do for the year then? I can see a serious increase in suicide. Morbid I know.

I plan on taking a year out the middle of '09. Have a fair bit of cash saved up. If it comes to it and I can't get a job in the middle of 2010 I'll look to emigrate.

ntlbell

Franklin Tall Vista wrote: »

What is everyone going to do for the year then? I can see a serious increase in suicide. Morbid I know.

Get out of Carlow brother...

SheroN

ntlbell wrote: »

Get out of Carlow brother...

Good advice even in boom times. :pac:

ongarite

Yep, you got to move to where the jobs are.
Unless your the guy who turned down a job in Cork because you wanted to stay where you are?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

ntlbell wrote: »

Get out of Carlow brother...

Oh I moved to Dublin, I forgot to change my location thingy.

ongarite wrote: »

Yep, you got to move to where the jobs are.
Unless your the guy who turned down a job in Cork because you wanted to stay where you are?

Yea that's me, it was at the second interview stage. There was more involved than just location, such as pay. It didn't make any sence to move for that money, I still wouldn't do it now.

I said in that thread I was prepared to move to certain areas, yet people (like you) were too stubborn to read my post and thought I was only searching in Carlow. In fact I searched very little down that area and constantly said I was prepared to move, lived in carlow/wicklow area for 8 years and I know how difficult it is to find any kind of work in that area.

dixiefly

ntlbell wrote: »

impossible to tell but the general outlook for a vast majority is not looking good.

i personally think we're in very serious deep waters and looking to the end of 09 will only see the start of some of the big big lay off's..

bend over and kiss your ass good bye imo

Do you reckon that there will be big layoffs towards the end of 2009?

If so, what sectors/ companies?

ntlbell

dixiefly wrote: »

Do you reckon that there will be big layoffs towards the end of 2009?

If so, what sectors/ companies?

Well I can't tell for sure what companies (i wish i could)

But I think early 2009 will see a large amount of lay off's and companies folding who are desperately trying to hold out over xmas which will lead to large knock on affects through the summer and on to winter 09.

Obviously the constructor sector is going to keep taken the big hits and anything connected to it (which is just about everything at some point) if all the builders wives can't get their weekly blow dry it starts to hit local shops like hairdressers when they're laid off they can't afford to and do what ever they do and so on and so forth

so i don't think there's many sector's that won't be affected.

if you're looking for a job debt collectors, credit control and accounts payable seems to be booming