any 2012 graduates find work yet?

mawk

hey guys, just wondering if any 2012 college graduates are finding work? how are the opportunities for people wanting to stay?

engineering grad myself and its not looking too bleak yet&I'm keeping positive. but no job yet.

who is doing better?

mackg

Good chance of a second round interview next week. Plenty jobs on sites but looking for experience, I'll still chance my arm though. Definitely doesn't look all doom and gloom yet!

Jen Pigs Fly

Graduated doing Advertising and Marketing Communications this year, not a single job yet and trust me I've been trying:mad:

GLaDOS

Finished up my final exams 2 weeks ago, been offered a post graduate position that I'll most likely accept.

NakedNNettles

Engineering >Canada

Marketing & Advertising >London

Next....

mawk

NakedNNettles wrote: »

Engineering >Canada

Marketing & Advertising >London

Next....

not that you're necessarily wrong, but it would be nice to hear of someone getting a decent job without emigrating

BillyMitchel

Graduated in 2010 and there was no job, left Ireland early 2011 to work abroad. Came home 2012 and very little opportunity, don't want to leave again but starting to feel like I'm being pushed out at this stage.

Hasmunch

mawk wrote: »

not that you're necessarily wrong, but it would be nice to hear of someone getting a decent job without emigrating

Would you like fries with that?

Noo

2010 engineering graduate myself, have only got my first paid engineering related job today...in Australia. Happy hunting!

pajunior

Not a graduate this year but people who did graduate from my course this year are doing fine, most had jobs, in Ireland, well before finishing their exams.
I study Computer Science btw.
My girlfriend studies music education and from her class of 10 I think 4 have jobs in Ireland, two are emigrating by choice, one because she can't find a job her and the rest are still looking or are going into further education.

From what I can tell if you have a decent degree you'll find some work.

Thatnastyboy

Just finished this year,

Honours degree in Quantity Surveying,

Started a full time job 3 days after the last exam, with a civil company.. in Ireland :eek:

IrishLad2012

Thatnastyboy wrote: »

Just finished this year,

Honours degree in Quantity Surveying,

Started a full time job 3 days after the last exam, with a civil company.. in Ireland :eek:

What the money like?How do you like the job?

mawk

Apparently it took me a month, but I found work without having to move somewhere that has wildlife that can eat me!
:-)

Don't lose hope. Jobs appear!

Funkstard

Architecture graduate, 2012. Started work nearly two weeks ago. Yeaow!

EDIT: (In Dublin)

Knex*

Was so close to doing Engineering a couple of years back and chose a Business/IT course instead. Have regretted it at times along the way but with the year ahead of me just graduated and something like 80-90% already having jobs I'm glad I did in the end.

Now here's hoping I actually like it when I graduate and (hopefully) start working properly next year.

Although, sometimes I think I never want to finish college

BUBBLE WRAP

None of your bees wax. :P

Knifey Spoony

Got a job sorted a couple of weeks before I started the final exams. It's in a local start up company, in an area I'm very interested in (RF Design Engineering). Should be starting there sometime next month. Studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering and there seems to be no shortage of jobs in the sector luckily.

Equium

Just finished engineering myself. To the best of my knowledge, only know of one of my classmates has been offered a position, and that was in Belgium. Something like 10/50 of last year's class ended up in full-time employment with the majority ending back up in college. But, hey, hope springs eternal and all that.

Lone Stone

just got me a shiny first class bachelors degree in animation, Well i finished up believing i was walking straight into a top job, But then three weeks or so before i was told i was starting they told me the position was not longer available, And i had turned down three other job offer's leading up to this. Fairly ****ty way it went down but these thing's happen.

Im sure il get some work some where. Helped out on a short today hope it might lead to some thing down the line. Or im really going to have to consider leaving Ireland.

A good few people in my class got work, even before we finished college.

woodoo

Plenty of work in IT

FizzleSticks

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Immaculate Pasta

I've graduated this year and no job yet. I've had 3 final stage interviews and 2 telephone interviews off close to 50 applications. I'm getting interviews which I'm encouraged with but it's definitely tough out there. I don't know too many of my peers who have been sorted for a graduate job.

I have a telephone interview later on this week but I'm not taking the job hunting too seriously at the moment as I'm going travelling around America for six weeks in 9 days time. I'll be back on it in September.

mawk

woodoo wrote: »

Plenty of work in IT

sssh! everyone will train up and take all the good jobs!

BUBBLE WRAP

mawk wrote: »

sssh! everyone will train up and take all the good jobs!

Microsoft here I come. :cool::pac:

Roxy.Randrome

Engineering Graduate. Start work in a fairly sizeable multinational company on Monday. Took a month and a half to find a job but not complaining too much, the little bit of a break was nice Out of my class of 26, I'd say about 20 of us have jobs now... only 2 or 3 had jobs before we graduated though.

I think that job availability really does depend on the type of engineering you're qualified in though.

lifelongnoob

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

Graduated doing Advertising and Marketing Communications this year, not a single job yet and trust me I've been trying:mad:

please no more spam, tv adverts, or junk mail

4zn76tysfajdxp

Lone Stone wrote: »

just got me a shiny first class bachelors degree in animation

Excellent preparation for drawing the dole. :cool:

The_B_Man

Software Engineering grad.
Had no bother getting a job.
Most of my class is working now, including 3 or 4 that got offered jobs before the exams! There's still a few others in the class that arent working, but I expect them to get jobs soon enough.
PS, nobody emigrated.

BUBBLE WRAP

The_B_Man wrote: »

Software Engineering grad.
Had no bother getting a job.
Most of my class is working now, including 3 or 4 that got offered jobs before the exams! There's still a few others in the class that arent working, but I expect them to get jobs soon enough.
PS, nobody emigrated.

Software engineering, what type of work/job would that consist off?

The_B_Man

its basically writing code. I'm too new to be doing any "engineering" or design of the software, so at the moment, im just writing code.

Shtanto

woodoo wrote: »

Plenty of work in IT

Really? I graduated in IT back on '07 and haven't had anything yet.

Happy to fix PCs btw