09/08/2011 - Your sectors' Performance in the Jobs Markets

Jobs Index by Sector for the Quarter 2 of 2011

 Irishjobs.ie provides stats regarding vacancy trends in the Irish employment market. The IrishJobs.ie Jobs Index measures jobs advertised online across the main recruitment websites in the country. Below we have decided to dissect the latest report focusing on the three sectors that we operate in – Catering & Hospitality, Medical & Healthcare and Professional Services.

Catering & Hospitality

 Based on company advertisements from April to June 2011, the Hotel and Catering sector shows resurgence in Q2 2011 compared with Q2 2010 (+26%)

This may be due to a seasonal variation, as traditionally the summer months in this sector are busiest for recruitment, but any positive change in this industry, which suffered badly when the recession first hit, is a good sign

Medical & Healthcare

A small negative occurred in job advertisements in the medical sector between Q1 and Q2 of this year. However, when compared with the same periods in both 2009 and 2010 we can see from the chart below that this industry has recovered well from the recession occurred in Q2 2011.                    

Table: Changes by Industry, positive changes in blue and negative changes in red.

Index is Q2:2009.

Professional Services

 Within the broad spectrum of professional services, Management (+30%), and IT (+45%), are the main growth areas whilst there are still definite decreases in Construction, Architecture and Property (-29%). 80 per cent of corporate jobs posted to IrishJobs.ie are new jobs rather than replacement jobs. The report also notes that Accountants are in huge demand in Galway at the moment with nearly 40% of all jobs advertised in Galway during Q2 being for that profession.

The author of the IrishJobs.ie Jobs Index is economist Dr Stephen Kinsella of the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick.

Source: Irishjobs.ie