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Accountancy jobs in Galway

  • 12-01-2010 5:38pm
    #1
    Mac71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭


    Does anyone know what the job situation is like in Galway at the minute? I have decided to relocate there from Dublin. I am fully qualified and did all my training in practice and would also be happy to consider a position industry. Or could anyone recommend a good recruitment agency??


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  • #2
    barrystealover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭barrystealover


    Hays recruitment in galway.think www.hays.ie


  • #3
    Rory1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Rory1


    barrystealover wrote: »
    Hays recruitment in galway.think www.hays.ie

    Had a quick look on hays.ie, not actually looking to move right now just curious. First job was €35k for a qualified accountant. Is it just me or is that not very depressing, is that not less any average industrial wage. 4 years in college, followed by 3 years of hard work for **** money and night classes and weekends.


  • #4
    KlausFlouride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭KlausFlouride


    Unless you have a good reason to move to Galway don't.

    1. It's as expensive as Dublin
    2. There are very few jobs. Pay is crap. You in turn will be paid crap because your boss will know you won't be able to change job readily.
    3. Galway people are clannish and will just about talk to you....and
    4. It's very transitory, outsiders stay for a couple of years and then move on, very few people stay long term for reasons outlined above.


  • #5
    mac85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭mac85


    KlausFlouride wrote: »
    Unless you have a good reason to move to Galway don't.

    1. It's as expensive as Dublin
    2. There are very few jobs. Pay is crap. You in turn will be paid crap because your boss will know you won't be able to change job readily.
    3. Galway people are clannish and will just about talk to you....and
    4. It's very transitory, outsiders stay for a couple of years and then move on, very few people stay long term for reasons outlined above.


    I can't believe you're saying such things. You must be joking. Have you actually lived in Galway? It's a great place to live.

    Anyway back to the point of the original posters question, I was in a similar situation for the past year or so looking for an accounting job in Galway, but with the current state of the country its very difficult. I think if something is going it'll most likely be in Dublin.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There are no jobs in Galway, never mind accounting jobs.

    Graveyard of ambition.


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  • #7
    KlausFlouride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭KlausFlouride


    mac85 wrote: »
    I can't believe you're saying such things. You must be joking. Have you actually lived in Galway? It's a great place to live.


    Lived in Galway for last few years, can't wait to leave but caught with mortgage. It has good aspects, but the ability to change jobs is weak for most jobs and particularly accountancy. If you have to spend 40-60 hours a week in a job you hate working for complete assholes it focuses the mind, believe me. The actual Galway people are extremely clannish contrast it to somewhere like Limerick or even Cork. Look at the amount of people who go to college in Galway. How many stay around? For sure, that's driven by the lack of jobs but it has infected the city with a slapdash, short-term attitude to everything, be it traffic, the water, policing, public transport, the hospitals actually it'd be quicker to list the things that function in non-amateur hour manner.


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