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Where the Jobs Growth is coming from
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Despite the news of Jobs going in Xerox. There is still growth in the jobs market in Ireland in the high skilled end of the jobs market. From RTE.
professional, associate-professional and managerial occupations will grow by 20% over the next five years as compared to the figures up to 2005. Women are expected to make up a majority of the occupational category, including business, finance and legal professionals by 2012. By then women will account for 44% of managers. Strong growth is also forecast in science, engineering and software development.
This is certainly good news for the economy with the college fees debate rearing its head again it must be highlighted that our future is in having a lot of educated people. But as Braz highlighted here and myself here we can’t simply rely on foreign companies to supply the growth we need better support for start-ups and a better start-up environment. We can not rest on our luarals. This statement should not be taken as solely good news but also a wake up call on where our country is headed and what we need to do.
Simon, isn’t it just great the way that RTe follow up actual job losses with “projected” jobs growth.
So they should have ignored this report published today Dan?
Ignore? No. Making it onto the one o’clock news is stretching it though.
Really. What would you have instead? Considering the Gender equality aspect that is quiet historic if true would also merit it’s inclusion.
Simon, they are projections not something that has actually happened. If it was meant to be an example of real journalism they might have looked at previous reports to see how those projections had measured up and given us some idea of the credibility of this report, but they didn’t. It was a puff piece.
Well Dan if that is the case the 900 jobs piece should also have had the same something about us still having the lowest youth unemployment. THe piece on RTE was news not anaysis. That is the problem with news today. People don’t want straight fact. They want it spun. Anayisis of the report is for the anaysis/comment page. News that this report says x is for the news. If we go down this anaysis road. We end up with fox news. Also I am pretty sure if the reportr said the opposite you would not be making this arguement
Simon, most of the reports I hear on RTe do refer to the continuing strength of the Irish economy in area X when talking about jobs losses in area Y.
I do not think that a report making projections should be reported without some context to indicated whether the report is credibly. I’m sure if the report was one stating that within 2 years 68% of households would have broadband you would be out screaming that not all broadband is the same and access in terms of an exchange being enabled is not the same as everyone having access and that we had seen loads of reports before and nothing had happened.
I am astonished to hear this report - what on earth is it based on? This seems to be pure spin and nothing else. How can they even put out a report like this and not say what it is based on and specifically which companies are expected to be hiring and what they future requirements are going to be and why. The ignorance of this is too hard to comprehend - they must think they are speaking to a load of thicks. Projections have to be based on SOMETHING other than “oh we think this will happen.” These reports are like something out of ga-ga land.