Where are all the jobs?

gnolan

We all know that there are little to no jobs in the civil engineering and the construction industry, but in what field are positions most available?

I'd like to get together an ordered list of the most prosperous (perhaps a stretch) industries and the specific disciplines that are hiring.

Hopefully someone could share some insight as to how to go about compiling such a list.

eg.

1. Pharmaceutical Sector - Manufacturing of pharmaceutical devices
2. IT - Web Design
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110. Engineering - Civil

Dinkie

Medical devices. I have been offered 2 jobs in the past week... without applying for them (and no... I'm not THAT good at my job).

mikemac

Financial Services, funds industry

Most places are hiring, bonuses are paid again

gnolan

Dinkie wrote: »

Medical devices. I have been offered 2 jobs in the past week... without applying for them (and no... I'm not THAT good at my job).

What kind of background is needed for such a job. Medical or engineering or, indeed, bioengineering?

feelingstressed wrote: »

Financial Services, funds industry

Most places are hiring, bonuses are paid again

Thanks for that. Would you say that the majority of these jobs are offered to people who have studied specifically for such an industry, or are offered to people with a mathematical background - Maths, Physics, Engineering, IT?

Denerick

Financial services are very difficult to get into without some kind of experience or degree specification though.

irishguy

Java, .NET and Flex developers with 4+ years exp are all in major short supply. Keep getting pestered about places hiring (A few different places)

shoegirl

gnolan wrote: »

What kind of background is needed for such a job. Medical or engineering or, indeed, bioengineering?

My ex partner has been with one of the big MD manufacturers for 8 years. Almost everybody I met there has some kind of manufacturing background. Most of them on the factory floor would definitely not be high achievers - many have just an Inter/Junior cert but a few years factory experience. They may also accept a bit of food handling or chemical handling experience for clean room operations.

Those who do well there tend to have a certificate or diploma in Engineering or Manufacturing Technology. That may be different in different segments of the sector.

Companies you're talking about would be the likes of Zimmer, Boston Scientific and Stryker.

Pharma is weak at the mo, know of several places that cut a lot of staff over the last few years on a number of sites.

Sikie

Dangerous compiling lists like this as in the late 80s civil engineering classes graduated and left the county and it wouldn´t have appeared a good choice in 1989 but a graduate from 1993 onward would have plenty of oppurtunities. Be careful!

gnolan

Thanks everyone for the replies so far, please keep them coming

Sikie wrote: »

Dangerous compiling lists like this as in the late 80s civil engineering classes graduated and left the county and it wouldn´t have appeared a good choice in 1989 but a graduate from 1993 onward would have plenty of oppurtunities. Be careful!

I see what you're saying, but the idea isn't so much a guide for school-leavers entering college, more a guage of how prosperous specific industries and their respective disciplines are.

Grawns

Electronic Engineering

NickDrake

feelingstressed wrote: »

Financial Services, funds industry

Most places are hiring, bonuses are paid again

Where are these financial services jobs??? Very little on the job sites

irishguy

NickDrake wrote: »

Where are these financial services jobs??? Very little on the job sites

Most financial's are hiring (To some degree). They are not named in the job ads, some are on their website. Most you have to speak to a recruiter. I hear competition is quite high for them

dan_d

Ehhh.......I'm a civil engineer, graduated 2005. No jobs out there in construction. Looking around for other jobs - not that many out there in anything!Most jobs in most sectors are 5-10 year experience type jobs. Nothing for entry level or one or 2 years experience.

Can you put retail down around 7ish on that list, I'm noticing a few more of them.

And I think you should drop engineering/construction to about -10. It doesn't even make the list to be quite honest.

irishguy

irishguy wrote: »

Java, .NET and Flex developers with 4+ years exp are all in major short supply. Keep getting pestered about places hiring (A few different places)

How future proof are dev jobs though?

As places like Sri Lanka, India and the Philippines develop more, is there a chance that programming/development will be outsourced overseas?

irishguy

salonfire wrote: »

How future proof are dev jobs though?

As places like Sri Lanka, India and the Philippines develop more, is there a chance that programming/development will be outsourced overseas?

Not necessarily. I worked for a very large irish company who outsourced their development work to a company (Very large IT company) based in India, they ended up bring it back in house because of poor quality and it ended up costing way more.
The company I am currently working for (Large US company) are moving their IT operations from India/USA to Ireland as their main IT centre.

So there will be work here in development for a good while after that you would have to move into a 'higher value role'

shoegirl

irishguy wrote: »

Not necessarily. I worked for a very large irish company who outsourced their development work to a company (Very large IT company) based in India, they ended up bring it back in house because of poor quality and it ended up costing way more.
The company I am currently working for (Large US company) are moving their IT operations from India/USA to Ireland as their main IT centre.

So there will be work here in development for a good while after that you would have to move into a 'higher value role'

+1

Companies that are taking the aggressive offshoring approach are literally haemmoraging contracts and having difficulty in winning new business. While generally the Indian employees are good, the communications difficulties, the dilution of accountability and differences in expectations often damage work beyond repair.

To give you one example, one place I worked for that was gradually eliminating its US/Euro workforce in favour of a race-to-the-bottom was finding it was simply missing services clients were asking for - cloud computing, virtualisation, etc. The offshore guys have the skills but the company threw away the experience.

I suspect a lot of this will graduate creep back.

purpur1

irishguy wrote: »

Most financial's are hiring (To some degree). They are not named in the job ads, some are on their website. Most you have to speak to a recruiter. I hear competition is quite high for them

Basically without a degree - you're screwed for finance jobs at the moment. They're mainly top of the scale jobs that are on offer and most financial's seem to be cutting 3 jobs to create 1.

irishguy

purpur1 wrote: »

Basically without a degree - you're screwed for finance jobs at the moment. They're mainly top of the scale jobs that are on offer and most financial's seem to be cutting 3 jobs to create 1.

What jobs in finance can you do without a degree? You cant even work as a teller in a retail bank without one. Even in the good times it would be hard to get a job in finance without one.

There are a range of roles being hired for at all levels. Quite a few fund accountants, risk, financial reporting, compliance. Also LOTS of financial IT jobs

another world

purpur1 wrote: »

Basically without a degree - you're screwed for finance jobs at the moment.

I recently got a role in a financial services company and I don´t have a degree. I´d say it´s about having experience more than anything else. In an interview, there´s only so much you can talk about your degree or qualification, but you should be able to talk all day about what you did in your last role.