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THE ECONOMY IN Ireland is very much on the up, with economic growth here currently three times the EU average.
Manufacturing here meanwhile recently marked its 31st straight month of growth.
If proof were needed then that, from a jobs and unemployment point of view, things are very definitely looking up, a just-released Irish salary and benefits survey for 2016 authored by recruitment consultants Morgan McKinley has predicted some very happy news for workers across the country.
Morgan McKinley specialise in the areas of finance, IT, human resources, engineering, science, marketing, and language-based employment.
Highest paid
According to the guide the top five highest-earning positions in Ireland in 2015 in those categories were:
The results arrived at in the guide were gleaned from a study of 40,000 separate employment placements across the country.
The guide also details what kind of salary graduates in these disciplines can expect, together with the average salaries seen in those employment branches by location across the country.
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Salary increases in 2016 are expected to be in the rage of 10%, rising to 15-20% for specialist positions in sectors where employers are seeing skills shortages, including IT, accountancy, science, and engineering.
Despite the robust nature of the job market here at present, the compilers of the guide have warned employers against excessive salary hikes.
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“We are anticipating on average a 10% increase in salary levels this year and would caution restraint in this area,” said Karen O’Flaherty, Chief Operations Officer with Morgan McKinley.
Inward investment is dependent on the ability to attract top talent and to be cost competitive.
As can be seen in the above graph, salaries in most disciplines are fundamentally higher in Dublin than in the rest of the country, with IT coming the closest to bridging the geographical salary gap.
However, in areas where the demand for talent is high the traditional disparity between salaries in Dublin and elsewhere in the country is not as evident as you might expect.
This is particularly the case in the areas of life science, pharmaceutical, engineering and IT it seems.
The general trend expected for 2016 and going forward is that “candidates with strong technical skills across all disciplines” are becoming the norm as “technology infiltrates all sectors”, according to O’Flaherty.
Gender gap
The gender gap is also becoming a thing of the past, at least in levels of take-up in areas traditionally dominated by one gender or the other.
In human resources for example, an area traditionally dominated by women, more males are entering the profession, while in life sciences and engineering “more females are qualifying and securing roles”.
The continued return of large numbers of expatriates is also expected for 2016, particularly from Canada, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, especially “professionals with young families” who return “more confident of securing employment”.
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Is Charlie Flanagan still TD Ah here I give up
This government has managed to get the lifetime of their own government out of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It was lauded in the beginning as a template for change. That was in 2019. The public and others were invited to make submissions in 2020, With the report due for release that December. December came and went, and the report was finally released in february, the Govt sat on it until making the obvious decision to accept the recommendations of LOA2 in July, but with an implementation group who would report back in 6 months. We’ll not go to LOA2 right away though, we’ll do it in phases, increasing defence spending in increments equal to the cost of One military aircraft per year.Here we are now almost June 2023, with nothing substantial achieved apart from a few more high paid civil service posts filled.
Tanagan would have us fighting under the Union Flag if he could. Does anybody really care what he says in this day and age?
Ireland should be a respected neutral country with an army capable of defending the country. Personally I would like weapons that could kill lots of people, this would deter even the worlds biggest countries from invading us.
@Brian Boru:
Nukes…
Maybe he should get the black and Tans to help out
I’m surprised at Cathal Berry. He should know the one person that will slow this process down to a crawl on that committee. Waiting to appoint a Head of Transformation (there must be a civil servant due retirement)someone who will then appoint someone and hey presto it will be election time. The Sec of the Department was put there for a reason. To make sure Defence is treated at a snails pace. Give nothing to the Military at all costs. I have never seen a Secretary of the Department do or introduce anything constructive EVER. Thats why they are kept.
So the chairperson in charge of a committee for implementing modernisation after meeting 6 times says that a head of transformation is due to be appointed but that other measures are delayed because of the IRG group publication which delayed the development of an implement implementation plan, and that the establishment of an (enquiry) and development of the terms of reference for it and potential interface on both of those and ensuring that the implementation plan is comprehensive also delayed. Please read that back and realise why so much goes at the snails pace mentioned in the article
We should arm and uniform our new Irish brothers, that would be great for everyone.
So the notoriously thin-skinned Flanagan, who was rightly demoted after the last general election, is mouthing off again…
Yawn!
I have a copy of the Epstein Flight log…
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@Real Chieflice Trump MAGA 2024:
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