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THERE’S BEEN A five per cent upsurge in the number of professional vacancies on offer in the Irish jobs market in the last month.
In tandem with that, there’s been an increase in the number of professional workers from overseas taking up jobs here — particularly those employed in multi-lingual roles.
According to the latest stats from Morgan McKinley’s employment monitor, there are currently 11,056 professional job vacancies in the country. That’s up 14% on this time last year.
While all sectors are seeing a hike, areas like finance, logistics, engineering and planning are experiencing the highest growth.
“There’s a shift in focus in financial services firms,” according to Morgan McKinley’s operations director Bryan Hyland.
“Whereas, previously, these firms had put resources into recruiting for their arrears and collections functions, we are seeing a shift towards hiring professionals in product development and sales roles.
“This is a prime example of firms looking to generate revenue in attracting new business and speaks well of the rising confidence in the Irish economy.”
The growth in multi-lingual roles is being driven by both start-ups and established companies, Hyland said.
“The professionals filling the jobs are mobile and, in general, in the first 10 years of their career.”
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Headline talks about a rise in roles where language skills are a factor and the the article talks about something different.
This is some class A journalism.
I speak fluent German and have a good degree from a good university. The vast majority of multilingual jobs I get contacted for are Mickey Mouse CS jobs. Unless you are in sales a foreign language is fairly worthless for a career in Dublin.
The best skill for job in Ireland is to know someone somewhere.
I totally agree. I speak 4 languages and it never helped me in getting a job that would meet my financial expectations. I am in logistics and even though I contact people around the world it is always English that we communicate in. It comes handy at work sometimes but not as much as people would think. But maybe it is just me. I do not regret studying linguistics as it IS great to have that skill but I would certainly not put is as number one goal when looking to improve your CV
I agree completely I speak German myself and all jobs are low paid CS jobs that are on offer
We got a new French boss in 2010, first memo was who jabbers in a modern European language, I got the boot two months later after 15 years, has to begun in national school in my humble opinion.
English not your best language either, eh?
I’m not going to lie the picture(tight!!) at the top made me click on this article. Well played the Journal!
我们都需要学会中文
Uaireanta!
*Sprechen Sie französisch?
Like everything else there’s degrees of fluency and skills needed for every job. If your only skill is speaking and you can’t find your way around a balance sheet, then you won’t go too far in finance. Similarly if you work for a German IT company but you can’t ask for a cup of coffee on your trips there, you won’t be MD.
I still see graduates who are bright but don’t understand the most basic aspects of getting ahead.
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