In a country of 4 million, we’ll soon have 70,000 graduates on the dole.\u00a0 It’s said by our prime minister that 400,000 people will be unemployed by 2010.\u00a0 1 in 4 of Irish unemployed are immigrants according to yesterday’s radio news.\u00a0 19% of current unemployed were college graduates in mid 2008.\u00a0 That’s going to have increased greatly. Up to then it was construction that was hit the worst.\u00a0 Now it’s office workers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Back when I graduated in 1996, I got my job offer during my finals.\u00a0 I wasn’t alone.\u00a0 Most of my class had a job before we walked outof our last exam.\u00a0 Things have changed 180 degrees.\u00a0 Since 2000, I’ve been telling young people not to do IT in college because (a) the high salaries were a myth and (b) the work really<\/em> wasn’t there, despite the claims.\u00a0 Now, I’d tell them to take a year or two off and travel the world.\u00a0 Delay the career path because it isn’t there and go do something that most of us wish they had.<\/p>\n I found out yesterday that recruitment pages are a 100% joke.\u00a0 The majority of the ads on them are for non-existing jobs.\u00a0 Hence these open job surveys were hear about are nonsense.\u00a0 I’d long suspected that adverts were either used to harvest CV’s or were out of date.\u00a0 A few weeks ago a recruiter admitted to me that fake jobs were posted to harvest CV’s, e.g. one recruiter is trying to convince people that there are government agencies hiring senior IT staff at the moment \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Despite how qualified you may be, they don’t respond to applications.\u00a0 Yesterday I was told that filled jobs continue to be advertised because "the sites continue to refresh the job automatically".\u00a0 Hmm, I guess they must not have a delete button?<\/p>\n Times are tough.\u00a0 It’s no better in Britain.\u00a0 The USA is stuffed (and impossible to get into legally) and Australia only wants builders … and stories are coming in that the situation really is no better there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a country of 4 million, we’ll soon have 70,000 graduates on the dole.\u00a0 It’s said by our prime minister that 400,000 people will be unemployed by 2010.\u00a0 1 in 4 of Irish unemployed are immigrants according to yesterday’s radio news.\u00a0 19% of current unemployed were college graduates in mid 2008.\u00a0 That’s going to have … Continue reading “Up to 70,000 Graduates Unemployed By Year End In Ireland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t