What areas in employment would be viable in ireland?

nudist

Ok so we all know that economically thanks to fianna fail/nama that the country is ruined for the next few years. But still there must be some job areas that are still hiring new graduates right?

Im going to make some educated guesses-IT, doctors and law. Would i be wrong here?

What about other sectors?

Also i was thinking of trying to become a civil servant-but i don't have any relatives who work for the government-would that be a problem?. I also seem to hear a lot of calls for the culling of the public sector-but will this actually happen?

MysticalRain

The areas of law and IT are saturated with graduates these days. Companies are still hiring, but you will be competing with a very large pool of people when you leave collect. Personally, I think finance or medicine would be the growth areas.

Nolanger

Whaling is a read-made industry that needs a few brave souls to get going.

Chinafoot

nudist wrote: »

Also i was thinking of trying to become a civil servant-but i don't have any relatives who work for the government-would that be a problem?. I also seem to hear a lot of calls for the culling of the public sector-but will this actually happen?

I'm not even going to comment on your "relatives" remark.

There is currently a recruitment embargo in the public sector. There are no jobs. There a tonnes of empty positions that can't be filled because of this. Yes there are departments that are majorly short staffed, but equally there are departments that are over-staffed due to the changes in the demand for their area. Redeployment is the most likely solution here.

Fo Real

Chinafoot wrote: »

I'm not even going to comment on your "relatives" remark.

Why? The OP speaks the truth. It's well known that nepotism is endemic within the public sector.

To address the OP's question directly: it's hard to say. There isn't much that Ireland can produce that can't be made somewhere else in the world, for better and cheaper. We could promote growth in our tourism sector, but this would require us to clean up our city centres of gypsy beggars, which the bleeding hearts won't hear of, of course.

nudist

Chinafoot wrote: »

I'm not even going to comment on your "relatives" remark.

There is currently a recruitment embargo in the public sector. There are no jobs. There a tonnes of empty positions that can't be filled because of this. Yes there are departments that are majorly short staffed, but equally there are departments that are over-staffed due to the changes in the demand for their area. Redeployment is the most likely solution here.

Seriously though-is there no point in even considering a job in the public sector? dam after hearing all these stories about how cushy their jobs are im really annoyed-safe jobs, dossy, great pension etc.

TurkeyBurger

Chinafoot wrote: »

There is currently a recruitment embargo in the public sector. There are no jobs. There a tonnes of empty positions that can't be filled because of this.

That's not entirely true. Here is a job in the public sector with an attractive looking €156K salary.

GMIT

And here is another with a similar salary attached to it.

State Exams

nudist

TurkeyBurger wrote: »

That's not entirely true. Here is a job in the public sector with an attractive looking €156K salary.

GMIT

And here is another with a similar salary attached to it.

State Exams

Indeed i should have mentioned that-seeing as i already checked that site. But from all the available jobs on that site about 130 in total last time i checked-most of the jobs if not all are for really experienced people or people who are very well connected to the government if you get what i mean.

There are no opening portions for people like me to get their foot in the door. Its time like these i wish i was related to a TD. Sad but true-it really is jobs for the boys as they
say.

TurkeyBurger

nudist wrote: »

Its time like these i wish i was related to a TD.

Nobody is going to be made the President of a Higher Education body by virtue of being related to a TD. I very much doubt that a TD could even place him or herself into that sort of position.

However, they could of course put in a good word for someone with the potential employer. In much the same way that can happen in any public or private company anywhere...

C.D.

TurkeyBurger wrote: »

Nobody is going to be made the President of a Higher Education body by virtue of being related to a TD. I very much doubt that a TD could even place him or herself into that sort of position.

However, they could of course put in a good word for someone with the potential employer. In much the same way that can happen in any public or private company anywhere...

GF interviewed for a contract librarian position with DLR County Council- the interviewer openly admitted that everyone interviewed was a relative of somebody who was working there. The justification was that apparently it was too much work to publicly advertise the job as they would not be able to process the avalanche of CVs.

TurkeyBurger

C.D. wrote: »

GF interviewed for a contract librarian position with DLR County Council- the interviewer openly admitted that everyone interviewed was a relative of somebody who was working there. The justification was that apparently it was too much work to publicly advertise the job as they would not be able to process the avalanche of CVs.

Yet DLR County Council are currently, publicly advertising for a Temporary Mechanical Supervisor (Contract until September 2011) on their website?

If DLR County Council, or any other Public body, claim to be an equal opportunities employer but then state that they only interview the relatives of people who are employees, you'd probably have a strong case against them.

nudist

TurkeyBurger wrote: »

Yet DLR County Council are currently, publicly advertising for a Temporary Mechanical Supervisor (Contract until September 2011) on their website?

If DLR County Council, or any other Public body, claim to be an equal opportunities employer but then state that they only interview the relatives of people who are employees, you'd probably have a strong case against them.

This is what i hate about ireland. Even if your well qualified for a position you wont even be counted in unless you are related/connected to the people in charge/already working there. This is the reason why ireland is so ****ed up-hiring less qualified people for your own personal gain.

Ive seen it many times before. Like i know a guy in the company Novell who got a accountancy job that wasn't advertised in the papers or online. Guess what-he was the son of one of the higher up's. Anyone who works there will know who im talking about. Its really obvious.

I really hate this country-mods can i ask for a favour?-I propose that boards should create a emigration forum for people leaving ireland to find work. It would be great if someone could write up stickies with links on how to get everything in place-visas, accommodation, etc.

Tazz T

Renewable energies.

Engineering more than technology and IT (since we haven't managed to get a decent broadband network going in this country yet)

nudist

Tazz T wrote: »

Renewable energies.

Engineering more than technology and IT (since we haven't managed to get a decent broadband network going in this country yet)

And yet we continually hear about the importance of the smart economy bringing us out of the recession. Ive been watching rte six one news this week (they have ongoing technology pieces on) and its just farcical that ireland is trying to invest itself as 'technology powerhouse'. Sure isn't most of europe in the process of moving to fiber optic? and where are we with our 3g and dsl lines? For shame.

C.D.

TurkeyBurger wrote: »

Yet DLR County Council are currently, publicly advertising for a Temporary Mechanical Supervisor (Contract until September 2011) on their website?

If DLR County Council, or any other Public body, claim to be an equal opportunities employer but then state that they only interview the relatives of people who are employees, you'd probably have a strong case against them.

Sorry, just checked with my gf, the interviewer said no such thing, but her relative in her immediate family (trying to keep details to a minimum.. you never know) who works in DLR CoCo knew the person doing the recruiting who told her this was the case. Nevertheless, myself and herself thought this was entirely crazy.