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  • Helena Deane
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    Professional job vacancies up 15%
    PROFESSIONAL job vacancies soared by 15% to 4,896 in March compared with a year earlier with a rise in demand noticed for recently qualified accountants and sales staff.

    Month-on-month, however, job vacancies fell in March by 13%, ending five consecutive monthly increases in new job vacancies registered. Despite this the number of vacancies in March was still higher than at any point in 2009.

    Chief executive of Premier Group Ireland Brian Murphy said: "While the number of new roles coming onto the professional jobs market in Ireland in March 2010 was down on the previous month, this fall should be considered in the context of the overall improvement in outlook in the first quarter of this year.

    "Looking back to the previous two quarters, job opportunities in Q1 2010 were 33% above Q3 09 and 18% ahead of Q4 09."

    The last few weeks have seen a number of significant job creation announcements, especially in the call centre market in Cork.

    Abtran announced the creation of 300 jobs while VoxPro said it was creating 160 jobs.

    Yesterday the creation of 87 high-tech jobs was announced at the Tyndall Institute in UCC as part of a €35 million investment.

    According to the figures from Premier, in the year there was an 8% increase in professionals looking for new jobs in March.

    In the month there was a decrease of 22% in the number of professionals looking for jobs, from 15,060 in February to 11,790 in March.

    Mr Murphy said that while the 22% drop is a significant decrease it is reflective of a seasonal trend experienced every year as a disproportionate number of professionals consider their career options as the New Year starts.

    He said in the first three months of 2010, most permanent hiring came from multinational organisations.

    He said that there are some signs that the small and medium business sector is becoming more active.

    "Roles that have seen a rise in demand include recently qualified accountants and sales professionals across multiple industry sectors. In addition, there has been an increase in opportunities for software developers and programmers; planners and procurement professionals in the supply chain sector and pharmaceutical R&D professionals.


    This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, April 27, 2010
    • 27 Apr 2010, 5:51 pm