Growth Industries in Ireland - Employment

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DACMAN

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Hi,
I've been employed in the Electronics Industry for the past 20 Years & at this stage the industry is declining & the no. of new job opportunities within the industry is dwindling - my question is what do people consider to be growth industries in Ireland - I'd like to evaluate how my skill set would transfer if I have to move to another (growth) industry sector

Thanks

DACMAN
 
DACMAN said:
I've been employed in the Electronics Industry for the past 20 Years & at this stage the industry is declining & the no. of new job opportunities within the industry is dwindling
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Doing what exactly? What about a different role in the same or a similar industry sector?
 
Anything related to servicing the internet needs of exisiting businesses esp. SMEs should see tremendous growth in the next few years. Web developers & designers, internet marketing firms, mobile internet etc., should have a significant upside as more Irish businesses start seeing the potential.

Don't want to seem like a starry eyed dotcommer but Ireland has a lot of catching up to do compared to the US and UK in the private sector (funnily enough IMO the Irish Gov. is a bit ahead of the curve ). Lots of decent sized irish companies have a crappy web presence (how many Irish websites have you seen 'under construction' for what seems like forever.)

Trouble with this area is spotting the right opportunity - lots of good companies but quite a few of the 'here today and gone tomorrow' variety too. Skill sets are quite fluid too.
 
dac man

depends on where you are based due to the deployment of certain industry within specific area's...

in my experience those that have had experience in the electronics industry have similar skill sets to the medical device industry which is doing very well in this country and has more added value... this could eventually mean a move in to the pharma sector... where there is more added value again...

best of luck,
 
I'd say exactly the same: I know a few people who've moved from electronics/manufacturing to medical devices. Also, one or do heading in the pharma direction.

The only issue is that if you're Dublin based both of these tend to be based in the south or west.

Apart from that, general services (and public sector) are still expanding.
 
I've noticed a lot of people from electronics background moving into Pharma too. I know a good few young electronic engineers who are finding it very hard to get a relevant job and are retraining in PLC Programming, Validation etc. who have little enough interest in those areas but are hoping to move into the industry that way.
 
Growth Areas
Anything Age Related
Anything Health and Wellness Related
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Primary skill is Computer Aided Design, this would be both Electronic & Mechanical, also some FEA - Thermal Simulation - Secondary would involve Documentation & Supplier evaluations & cost negotiation
 
Extending on 'mobile' mentioned above: wireless applications (in home, PDAs, broadband, GPS, building management controls, etc.).
 
DACMAN said:
Primary skill is Computer Aided Design, this would be both Electronic & Mechanical, also some FEA - Thermal Simulation - Secondary would involve Documentation & Supplier evaluations & cost negotiation
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Good skills for a medical device manufacturing. Do you have any QA or purchasing qualifications? If not can you do one before you jump ship? To me it looks like it would be a small jump for you to take a project from the internal design team at an OEM and set up the supply chain with outside vendors. I work with these sort of guys a lot and most of them don't have your skills. What part of the country are you in?
 
This http://www.skillsireland.ie/ has links to the excellent Future Skills Needs reports which also give you breakdowns of the current age/gender employment in the particular sector or occupation. It's all very well having a good skillset but if the relevant industry does not generally employ your age group or gender, you may still find it hard.

I think this website has a lot of generally useful stuff for anyone thinking of changing direction.

Imogen
 
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