There's plenty of work in the country

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Leo said:
I'm in one such company. Expension plans are being stalled due to difficulties getting suitably qualified candidates. For one role I interviewed for, in 2 months of advertising, we had 5 applicants!
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I'm in a small(ish) Irish company and we can't get skilled people either.
 
Purple said:
I'm in a small(ish) Irish company and we can't get skilled people either.
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Just out of curiosity, what skills are they?

We've bleated on to all foriegn investors about our knowledge and skills base, but it seems that most of those skills lay in construction related industries.

We've missed the boat in too many cases now with the tech industry. Companies are expanding now and need the computer engineers now and science graduates now. Instead we've quantity surveyors and ergonomists. It annoys me that we have been flagging this up as a huge growth area for years and years, there was ample opportunity to turn it around and we would be able to capitalise. I fear not any more. Our only hope is that the rest of europe was equally negligent.
 
There are plenty of Science and Engineering courses. Is it just that these graduates need 'specialist' training?
If there are genuinely shortages in candidates in some areas, surely this is something the government could get involved in regards training.
 
Latrade said:
Just out of curiosity, what skills are they?

We've bleated on to all foriegn investors about our knowledge and skills base, but it seems that most of those skills lay in construction related industries.

We've missed the boat in too many cases now with the tech industry. Companies are expanding now and need the computer engineers now and science graduates now. Instead we've quantity surveyors and ergonomists. It annoys me that we have been flagging this up as a huge growth area for years and years, there was ample opportunity to turn it around and we would be able to capitalise. I fear not any more. Our only hope is that the rest of europe was equally negligent.
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We need skilled machinists. They can't be got!
Of the last 10 people we hired 6 are Polish, 2 are English, one is Russian and 1 is Latvian. They are on the same rates as the Irish guys and all are well paid. There's just nobody with the skills and experience.

BTW, they have the same problem in the UK.
 
Working for a multinational, I find 2 main skills gaps in graduates. One is language, Irish grads either don't have a 2nd language or if they do, it's French. Why aren't our schools pushing Spanish, one of the fastest growing languages in the world, or Chinese?.

2nd issue we have is the poor quality of written English, in particular in terms of responding to requests. Spellcheck and txt speak has ruined a lot of grads. Interestingly DIT have said they have to double the amount of English studies for their journalism courses.
 
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2nd issue we have is the poor quality of written English, in particular in terms of responding to requests. Spellcheck and txt speak has ruined a lot of grads. Interestingly DIT have said they have to double the amount of English studies for their journalism courses.
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That's not just a problem in Ireland. Some of the emails, supply agreements, non-disclosure agreements and general business documents I receive are shockingly badly written.
 
Purple said:
That's not just a problem in Ireland. Some of the emails, supply agreements, non-disclosure agreements and general business documents I receive are shockingly badly written.
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I agree, worked in England in the 90s and we had to put the Alphabet on the apptitude test after we found 2 new recruits getting confused. Interestingly, I find some well qualifed Polish staff have better writen English then many of my local team.
 
Enough on the outing of the individual hospital/ person involved above. AAM isn't the place for such discussion as it veers close to libel territory.
Leo
 
I am closing this thread.

It has been suggested that some consultants have retired and have been taken back on as "consultants".

I have no idea whether this is true or not. If anyone cares enough about it, they can FoI it.

Brendan
 
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