Business Week: The new generation leaving Ireland

[Blue_Horseshoe]

Story taken from Business Week, 11th Feb 2010

“It used to be employers were fighting over graduates,” says Shane King, a 22-year-old Trinity senior from County Mayo on Ireland’s west coast. “Now graduates are fighting each other for jobs.”

A sad scene that many will recall from decades before the 1990’s.

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[Septic_Crank]

Former Intel Chairman Craig R. Barrett says that of the 14 reasons Intel came to Ireland two decades ago, only one remained: a low corporate tax rate of 12.5%. “Ireland needs a new game plan,” he said at a Dublin conference in September.

Somebody send him the IDA pack on the Knowledge Economy.

And where’s Eamon Ryan when we need him?

[fedorov]

great article

finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1012308.shtml

First published Jan 13, 2008

The Irish Mind. An abundant supply of that rare commodity you’ll need to bring your business to peak performance. The Irish. Creative. Imaginative. And flexible. Agile minds with a unique capacity to initiate and innovate without being directed. Always thinking on their feet. Adapting and improving. Generating new knowledge and new ideas. Working together to find new ways of getting things done. Better and faster.

This flexible attitude pervades the ecosystem. Nowhere else will you find such close, frequently informal, links between enterprise, education and research facilities and a pro-business government. Connected by a dynamic information infrastructure. In Ireland, everything works together -

[pete]

The depressing self-deprecating passive and downright embarassing stupidity of the “new generation of Irish emigrating” never ceases to amaze me. Civil engineering eh? Have to travel on the famine ship to Australia because there’s no job eh?

Here is the EURES search for Civil Engineer jobs that those whining civil engineers are unable to find:

Lithuania: 2 job(s) matched

Slovenia: 7 job(s) matched

Switzerland: 7 job(s) matched

Bulgaria: 1 job(s) matched

Norway: 73 job(s) matched

Sweden: 115 job(s) matched

United Kingdom: 11593 job(s) matched

Germany: 1001 job(s) matched

Spain: 1 job(s) matched

Belgium: 69865 job(s) matched

Czech Republic: 71 job(s) matched

Finland: 61 job(s) matched

France: 322 job(s) matched

Netherlands: 265 job(s) matched

Austria: 21 job(s) matched

Cyprus: 11 job(s) matched

Poland: 85 job(s) matched

Romania: 4 job(s) matched

Denmark: 14 job(s) matched

Italy: 1 job(s) matched

Luxembourg: 3 job(s) matched

Portugal: 23 job(s) matched

So clearly with only around 20000 jobs an hour or two away with Ryanair €10 flights available right now, it’s a total crisis, so it’s either wearing no shoes to school through the fields or else the emigrant path to Australia. What alternative closed off and isolationist planet are these new poor graduates living in? Do they even look at the currency they use every day?

[yoganmahew]

Yeahbut either they don’t speak the right language in those countries or it’s not sunny enough…

[Homemaker]

Guy on de liveline the other day telling people not to bother going to Canada, there’s no work. He graduated in the summer and went over with 11 mates and 5 of them have found work, I think he said it was mostly labouring type stuff too. Others were on saying how difficult it is to establish yourself in Aus and if you do get to go through citizenship process it costs a packet. Most of them seemed to be saying not to waste your money on the airfare etc.

Look out for an article about the new emigration returning…

[Septic_Crank]

Look out for an article about the new emigration returning…

And not qualifying for any social welfare payments.

[yoganmahew]

Look out for an article about the new emigration returning…

And not qualifying for any social welfare payments.

At least they won’t be counted as unemployed. Sure won’t that make the FAS boys right?

[Blue_Horseshoe]

Former Intel Chairman Craig R. Barrett says that of the 14 reasons Intel came to Ireland two decades ago, only one remained: a low corporate tax rate of 12.5%. “Ireland needs a new game plan,” he said at a Dublin conference in September.

Somebody send him the IDA pack on the Knowledge Economy.

And where’s Eamon Ryan when we need him?

Mr. Barrett said this back in September 2009 at the Framleigh “love in”. The problem was he said it to an event organised by the very government who oversaw the erosion of 13 of the 14 reasons to come here and so chose to just brush over it.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire … 09195.html

For those who are interested, I could only find a partial list of the original 14

• availability of a well-educated workforce,
• attractive taxation and incentives,
• the availability of suitable land,
• good infrastructure services
• the quality of life in Ireland

presumably the cost base was one also.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/fin … 38380.html

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