what industries are booming?

homeless student

what industries are booming? what area are you likely to get a job if you are qualified in that particular area, at present.

BuilderPlumber

Very few of them if any.

Bepolite

IT if you want to stay.

Nursing/Electrician/Plumber if you want to go abroad.

Law - avoid at all costs unless you understand how to build your contact base into the profession.

Why you would base what you want to do for the rest of your life on what you think you might get a job in is beyond me. Do what you enjoy, you're more likely to be successful at it and less likely to hang yourself at 35.

If money is your ultimate goal entrepreneurship/crime.

homeless student

Bepolite wrote: »

IT if you want to stay.

Nursing/Electrician/Plumber if you want to go abroad.

Law - avoid at all costs unless you understand how to build your contact base into the profession.

Why would you base what you want to do for the rest of your life on what you think you might get a job in is beyond me. Do what you enjoy, you're more likely to be successful at it and less likely to hang yourself at 35.

If money is your ultimate goal entrepreneurship/crime.

I am just asking out of curiosity, I wouldn't do something just to get a job, I would only do something I enjoyed, I am in college atm.

maguic24

homeless student wrote: »

what industries are booming? what area are you likely to get a job if you are qualified in that particular area, at present.

IT

Rod Serling

maguic24 wrote: »

IT

Every time. :rolleyes:

maguic24

Rod Serling wrote: »

Every time. :rolleyes:

In your opinion, what industries are booming?

Guyanachronism

maguic24 wrote: »

IT

IT related call centres. Call centres in general. They give the jobs fancy names now but they're mostly call centres.

Back lash from out sourcing to non native english speaking countries and reduced costs in Ireland with larger pool of labour to pick from, so they're coming to or even returning to Ireland.

sarkozy

Any IT linked to 'big data' and social media that's currently booming will be the epicentre of the next crash.

kevohmsford

The Semiconductor industry is doing pretty well at the moment. Medical devices, agriculture and IT are strong aswell.

Zascar

IT is strong as Dublin is a hub for tech in Europe. Look at the names that are here: Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, ZenDesk, MongoDB, Box, Dell, EMC, Hubspot, HP, PayPal, Dropbox... the list goes on. Don't think you have to be a techy though. There are jobs across all lines of business. Salespeople are in very high demand in these companies and the money is excellent if you are good.

sarkozy wrote: »

Any IT linked to 'big data' and social media that's currently booming will be the epicentre of the next crash.

Lol. I'd love to hear you explain that one!

SHANAbert

Medical device industry.

Mech Eng
Bio Eng
Manufacturing Eng
Product Design

Sunny Dayz

Try to do a foreign language course in your spare time - see what courses or even societies are in your college. I found when I was job hunting a lot of them looked for a European language. This was in relation to admin/finance roles personally but could easily be applied to other industries.

sarkozy

Simple. It's a global sector that's on the receiving end of massive and indiscriminate amounts of venture capital to produce products of fictitious value, which in turn creates massive amounts of bank debt which, once the true value of these companies and products are realised will create a new financial crisis.

I seem to recall something called the dot-com crash happening in 2000/2001?

mickyellow

SHANAbert wrote: »

Medical device industry.

Mech Eng
Bio Eng
Manufacturing Eng
Product Design

Completely agree. Medical Device Industry is particularly booming. Plenty of freelance work in Product Design also available to those with experience.

knipex

Outside of IT..


Anything involving calibration, validation, process chemistry, anything related biologics in general.

If you have experience and knowledge in process engineering, validation, Biologics, sterile manufacturing and with education in chemistry, engineering or microbiology then you should be doing OK at the moment.

Other then that there are a number of support industries around these sectors (medical device, Biopharma, micro electronics \ wafer fab), process water, water treatment, HVAC, environmental control in general, validation instrumentation etc that will also do OK but these used to be spread out amongst multiple smaller companies, however there appears to be some consolidation at the moment with a smaller number of companies picking this work up.

The trades can still do well, they can have an important role to play with some retraining, but we will have (if not already the case) a shortage of appropriately trained techs and engineers...

enricoh

a friend qualified in the summer doing mech. eng n got a job with good salary after a month or two.
was talking to him recently n he said pretty much everyone in the class that wasnt doing further education or going travelling got a job in ireland - was pleasantly surpised to hear it

SHANAbert

enricoh wrote: »

a friend qualified in the summer doing mech. eng n got a job with good salary after a month or two.
was talking to him recently n he said pretty much everyone in the class that wasnt doing further education or going travelling got a job in ireland - was pleasantly surpised to hear it

Finished a Biomedical engineering 1 yr masters in September last year. We had a small class but all six of us got work in the medical device industry.

creep

I.t most certainly is booming. A degree on its own in computer science is not enough. You need to go on and do as many I. T certs as you can in areas you interested in. Unfortunately the learning never stops. If you haven't got a job in six months and have not got any certs very few places will hire you Certs these days are far more important than degrees and a lot have to be retaken after three years

cerebus

sarkozy wrote: »

It's a global sector that's on the receiving end of massive and indiscriminate amounts of venture capital to produce products of fictitious value, which in turn creates massive amounts of bank debt which, once the true value of these companies and products are realised will create a new financial crisis.

I'm not sure you have that right - not much of a link between venture capital investment and bank debt to be honest.

I'm not disagreeing with your claim that a bunch of VCs will lose money on their big data/social network investments, but in the grand scheme of things the dollars involved are pretty small...

BuilderPlumber

Any science seems to be in high demand but depends on your location in many regards.

IT is a bit of a misnomer. Not as booming as some claim but if you happen to have the right skill at the right place at the right time, you could be lucky. However, you got to live in Dublin for most opportunities.

A lot of work from home schemes but which are trustworthy?!?!?!?!?

There is a job in everything abroad somewhere.

AVOID call centres and their jobs dressed up as fancy things!

FurQyou

Zascar wrote: »

IT is strong as Dublin is a hub for tech in Europe. Look at the names that are here: Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, ZenDesk, MongoDB, Box, Dell, EMC, Hubspot, HP, PayPal, Dropbox... the list goes on. Don't think you have to be a techy though. There are jobs across all lines of business. Salespeople are in very high demand in these companies and the money is excellent if you are good.

Especially for multilingual candidate's in non tech roles within these outfits.

A lot of those companies use Ireland as a base for european activity so plenty of opportunities for central european language speakers!

mcko

The pharma industry is booming.
Process operators earning €64000 plus benefits on shift.

beauf

mickyellow wrote: »

Completely agree. Medical Device Industry is particularly booming. Plenty of freelance work in Product Design also available to those with experience.

Out of curiosity where do they advertise freelance work in Product Design work. I've never seen it on the main stream sites. Only on specialises ones and then not much of it.

ivan itchyarse

homeless student wrote: »

what industries are booming?

prostitution

BuilderPlumber

ivan itchyarse wrote: »

prostitution

And: Drug dealing! Especially if you have King Nidge on your side. And/or Fran the Man!

323

Energy Industries are all booming.

Oil/Gas/Renewables, onshore and offshore are very busy and all the support/service industries involved are flat out.

MouseTail

Skills shortages in IT, high tech manufacturing, health care, Agrifood, finance.

boobar

There seem to be a lot of vacancies across a range of disciplines in IT

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

PHP coding ?? by any chance

Pigwidgeon

There's also a huge shortage of good qualified chefs in the country/europe at the moment. Something not many people are aware of.

Celly Smunt

mickyellow wrote: »

Completely agree. Medical Device Industry is particularly booming. Plenty of freelance work in Product Design also available to those with experience.

I agree,high tech manufacturing in general is booming and looks like it will for the coming future.

Product design,industrial design,mechanical engineering,bio engineering and electrical engineering are going to be the places to be.

Celly Smunt

beauf wrote: »

Out of curiosity where do they advertise freelance work in Product Design work. I've never seen it on the main stream sites. Only on specialises ones and then not much of it.

Mainly contact driven.You do some good work for one company they'll tell somebody and around and around it goes.

TwoGallants

The age of the 'job for life' is all but gone except for a select few. Pick something you're interested in and get used to the idea that you will only ever earn enough money to just get by. The fat salaries and handy numbers are a thing of the past. Hopefully this economic realignment will make people realise there is much more to life than crass materialism, technology will hopefully make ever more occupations obselete, thus creating the conditions for a humanity based economic model where jobs are shared and hours are few...

/Marxist rant

sarkozy

Funny, I was reading an article in The Economist questioning the predictions by Keynes and Marx about industrialisation leading to more leisure time and non-materialist pursuits for all. Of course, we know the opposite has happened, people are working longer, and the boundaries between work and play, created by the new economy of 'immaterial labour', are becoming increasingly blurred.

I don't believe people should learn to accept the situation you describe. That's to accept the tendencies of capitalism to create inequality and cause immiseration for the majority. In this single economic crisis alone, 'normal people' are being forced to accept lower standards of living and more precariousness in life (mostly through persuasion and cooption, ultimately backed up by coercion). This, our bitter medicine, which must be taken alongside a continued rise in inequality and concentration of wealth among the wealthy.

I think we all need to think more about this as workers. I'm unemployed and resent the bleak prospects put before me after having worked so hard for so many years, but we've just got to eat it. Haven't we?

homeless student

sarkozy wrote: »

Funny, I was reading an article in The Economist questioning the predictions by Keynes and Marx about industrialisation leading to more leisure time and non-materialist pursuits for all. Of course, we know the opposite has happened, people are working longer, and the boundaries between work and play, created by the new economy of 'immaterial labour', are becoming increasingly blurred.

I don't believe people should learn to accept the situation you describe. That's to accept the tendencies of capitalism to create inequality and cause immiseration for the majority. In this single economic crisis alone, 'normal people' are being forced to accept lower standards of living and more precariousness in life (mostly through persuasion and cooption, ultimately backed up by coercion). This, our bitter medicine, which must be taken alongside a continued rise in inequality and concentration of wealth among the wealthy.

I think we all need to think more about this as workers. I'm unemployed and resent the bleak prospects put before me after having worked so hard for so many years, but we've just got to eat it. Haven't we?

lets stick to what the thread is about please.

Zascar

Another very interesting map: http://makeitinireland.com/tech-map/ - I know overall we are having it hard in general but if you are in any way skilled or talented there is an abundance of opportunity around in the tech world. Saying there are no big money job any more and all you can hope for is to 'get by' is silly. I don't disagree with the materialism comments but there are still high paying jobs out there. Sales especially as they rely on you to bring the money in. Commission often doubles your basic salary. If you do some research you can fairly easily find out the types of salaries in tech companies - you'd be surprised. But this goes with the territory of the industry. Other industries, you simply don't go into them for the money. People should have a long hard think about their career path, if money is important to you, and which direction you want to go.

BuilderPlumber

TwoGallants wrote: »

The age of the 'job for life' is all but gone except for a select few. Pick something you're interested in and get used to the idea that you will only ever earn enough money to just get by. The fat salaries and handy numbers are a thing of the past. Hopefully this economic realignment will make people realise there is much more to life than crass materialism, technology will hopefully make ever more occupations obselete, thus creating the conditions for a humanity based economic model where jobs are shared and hours are few...

/Marxist rant

This is the huge failure of capitalism. Like food, safety and shelter, the right to work and have stable employment is a basic right. Our dictatorship does not have to fire bullets or beat people to keep them down and weak: instead, we have a system of economic uncertainty where there is no stable employment. This is wrong and, by comparison, communism does not look half bad compared to the crass greedy capitalism we have in this country at present.

323

TwoGallants wrote: »

The age of the 'job for life' is all but gone except for a select few. Pick something you're interested in and get used to the idea that you will only ever earn enough money to just get by. The fat salaries and handy numbers are a thing of the past. Hopefully this economic realignment will make people realise there is much more to life than crass materialism, technology will hopefully make ever more occupations obselete, thus creating the conditions for a humanity based economic model where jobs are shared and hours are few...

/Marxist rant

Fair enough about the jobs for life thing, but been like that for 2 decades in most industries, as for the rest.

Absolute rubbish.

Obviously, from the replies here, lots of technical industries are booming, As to getting by, since the so called downturn, pay rates in my industry almost all are up minimum 50% in the last 4 years

BuilderPlumber

A whole other problem here too is there are lots of technical/engineering/science type jobs out there which have impossibly stringent requirements to fill them. The person with the skills for them often realistically doesn't exist. It is like that every company in these sectors seems to want their employees to have 20 years experience in their company before they even start!

The attitude of employers is often very wrong and is listened to way too much. Often, they lay blame on the colleges or on worker's so-called incompetence. If the government is serious about tackling unemployment, they need to challenge employers and tell them to take on/train workers. In fact, some liaison between colleges and employers to train workers is needed.

AllthingsCP

Security Industry here has been better then ever.

BuilderPlumber

sarkozy wrote: »

Funny, I was reading an article in The Economist questioning the predictions by Keynes and Marx about industrialisation leading to more leisure time and non-materialist pursuits for all. Of course, we know the opposite has happened, people are working longer, and the boundaries between work and play, created by the new economy of 'immaterial labour', are becoming increasingly blurred.

I don't believe people should learn to accept the situation you describe. That's to accept the tendencies of capitalism to create inequality and cause immiseration for the majority. In this single economic crisis alone, 'normal people' are being forced to accept lower standards of living and more precariousness in life (mostly through persuasion and cooption, ultimately backed up by coercion). This, our bitter medicine, which must be taken alongside a continued rise in inequality and concentration of wealth among the wealthy.

I think we all need to think more about this as workers. I'm unemployed and resent the bleak prospects put before me after having worked so hard for so many years, but we've just got to eat it. Haven't we?

This is so so true. Free market capitalism and that this argument for smaller government is what has failed here and so many other countries. There are several reasons for this:

1. First off, it means the government has no incentive to provide employment and the onus is on the private sector.
2. Since the private sector has to do more, they have to borrow more. Anglo Irish bank anyone!
3. Can the private sector be trusted in certain things?
4. What if private enterprises fail?

Free market capitalism with small government has its roots in the thinking following recessions in the 1970s. Reagan and Thatcher made it famous in the 1980s. Recently, the likes of Bush and here Bertie, Charlie McCreevy and Mary Harney were its strong advocates. Nuff said!

beauf

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

A whole other problem here too is there are lots of technical/engineering/science type jobs out there which have impossibly stringent requirements to fill them. The person with the skills for them often realistically doesn't exist. It is like that every company in these sectors seems to want their employees to have 20 years experience in their company before they even start!

The attitude of employers is often very wrong and is listened to way too much. Often, they lay blame on the colleges or on worker's so-called incompetence. If the government is serious about tackling unemployment, they need to challenge employers and tell them to take on/train workers. In fact, some liaison between colleges and employers to train workers is needed.

Exactly. Employers don't train anymore. Hence people don't have the exact skillset employers want. Also keeping people stuck in the same job, without updating their skills, meants they can't keep up to date.

Its like over fishing.

atomoh

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

A whole other problem here too is there are lots of technical/engineering/science type jobs out there which have impossibly stringent requirements to fill them. The person with the skills for them often realistically doesn't exist. It is like that every company in these sectors seems to want their employees to have 20 years experience in their company before they even start!

The attitude of employers is often very wrong and is listened to way too much. Often, they lay blame on the colleges or on worker's so-called incompetence. If the government is serious about tackling unemployment, they need to challenge employers and tell them to take on/train workers. In fact, some liaison between colleges and employers to train workers is needed.

Well said, I found it very true for the science sector. And aside from the 20 years experience, they usually require expertise and knowledge in an unrealistic wide range of subjects. Some job ads just seem tailored on a specific candidate. Unless you have spent the last 20 years acquiring those specific knowledge, there is little way you can be successful.

wallycharlo

kevohmsford wrote: »

The Semiconductor industry is doing pretty well at the moment...

This does indeed seem to be the case in Ireland right now, though it's not the case in the rest of the EU where there has been much decline as of late ...

NewWheels

Zascar wrote: »

Another very interesting map: http://makeitinireland.com/tech-map/ - I know overall we are having it hard in general but if you are in any way skilled or talented there is an abundance of opportunity around in the tech world. Saying there are no big money job any more and all you can hope for is to 'get by' is silly. I don't disagree with the materialism comments but there are still high paying jobs out there. Sales especially as they rely on you to bring the money in. Commission often doubles your basic salary. If you do some research you can fairly easily find out the types of salaries in tech companies - you'd be surprised. But this goes with the territory of the industry. Other industries, you simply don't go into them for the money. People should have a long hard think about their career path, if money is important to you, and which direction you want to go.

Excellent Link - many thanks for sharing:D

BuilderPlumber

AllthingsCP wrote: »

Security Industry here has been better then ever.

Yes, that is for damn sure! Crime and disorder has gone up and all types of security is not only an advantage but is outright essential today.

cooperguy

I also agree that Biomedical/Pharmaceuticals/Science is booming in Ireland. I know a lot of people in the area who have never had an issue getting a job right through the recession. Anybody who graduated with me got a job once they started looking. A couple of people I know had their contracts come to an end with the companies they were working for. None of them were out of work for more than a week.

Elessar

For all this IT is "booming" talk - it is and it isn't.

IT is booming if you have a large skillset (i.e. senior software engineer) and 5-10+ years of experience. And also have exposure to an unrealistic amount of different technologies. Everybody wants the cream of the crop. And there is good money to be made.

IT is not booming if you are a recent graduate or have no experience. There was an article on The Journal recently which stated that IT graduates have the highest level of unemployment of any sector. Which depresses me to hell (I've just started a part time IT degree!).

I'm hoping, of course, they were wrong!

3DataModem

Gambling

creep

Elessar wrote: »

For all this IT is "booming" talk - it is and it isn't.

IT is booming if you have a large skillset (i.e. senior software engineer) and 5-10+ years of experience. And also have exposure to an unrealistic amount of different technologies. Everybody wants the cream of the crop. And there is good money to be made.

IT is not booming if you are a recent graduate or have no experience. There was an article on The Journal recently which stated that IT graduates have the highest level of unemployment of any sector. Which depresses me to hell (I've just started a part time IT degree!).

I'm hoping, of course, they were wrong!

The thing with graduates is that they have to realize that an I.T degree on its own is only the beginning. I.T is constant learning. You need to get as many certs as you can such as oracle certification, microsoft certificattions such as MCSA, networking certs such as CCNA, Programming certs, MCSA SQL server etc. I.T degree is only the begginig, you need to specialize with certs in a specific area such as databases, ,NET, Networking etc. Most employers are only interested in people with these certs as it shows they are willing to upskill on their own.