Professional job opportunities rise

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Professional job opportunities have increased compared to this time last year, and have also increased since the start of the year.

The Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor recorded an increase of 10% in professional job opportunities in Q2 compared with the same period last year, and also recorded a year to date an increase of 5% when compared with the first six months of 2012.

According to Karen O’Flaherty, chief operations officer, Morgan McKinley, many of the opportunities are in the multinationals that require multi-industry and sectoral experience combined with good project management, leadership and people skills.

"Professional job opportunities across all divisions have steadily increased across SME and multi-national sectors as a result of growing business confidence year on year," said O’Flaherty Due to the start of the summer season new job opportunities have unsurprisingly decreased by 3% between the months of May and June.

O’Flaherty said that the skills in demand in the senior professional market include those for emerging hybrid roles across finance, IT and marketing. These are trends driven by the rise of Big Data and analytics and require experience in data modelling, analytics and forecasting that complement more traditional job descriptions and skills sets.

"With the establishment of new employers, through inward investment and the SME sector in various locations around Ireland in recent months, various job opportunities have arisen in technology including digital marketing, enterprise solutions and specialist IT skills including UI/UX engineers. Demand remains high for skills in multi-lingual technical support, customer service personnel and experienced marketers with pan European experience.

"Hiring in web and mobile applications roles remained strong in June with demand for experienced professionals with languages including Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Objective-C. Also senior IT professionals with .Net, ERP and SAP skills combined with project management and business analysis skills are highly sought after.

"Though we expect demand in many of the areas to continue, we anticipate a modest pace of job hiring and professionals seeking new opportunities over the summer months," concluded O’Flaherty.

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