Calling all Ireland-based candidates: Share your job-seeking experiences by writing columns for eFinancialCareers

6 July 2011

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Calling all Ireland-based candidates: Share your job-seeking experiences by writing columns for eFinancialCareers

If you're a financial services professional looking for a new position in Ireland currently, you're facing one of the toughest job markets in living memory.

eFinancialCareers Ireland is hoping that you, the financial services professional, can tell us (and your fellow readers) what it's really like in the Irish employment market. Is it really that tough? Or is the financial sector recovering? Or are you packing your bags and heading overseas?

Never mind what recruiters and HR people think, we want financial-sector employees and job seekers to write (anonymous) columns about their careers. Give us the gossip on the good, the bad and the simply frustrating aspects of looking for work in 2011.

If we like the first piece you write, we might even give you a regular slot on the site. We're already doing this on some of our other sites, so please click on the links below before deciding whether to contribute content for Ireland.

And, if this sounds like something you might be interested in, get in touch on <a href="mailto:editor@efinancialcareers.com"editor@efinancialcareers.com.

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AUTHOReFinancialCareers Ireland

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Paul, eFinancialCareers
8 July 2011
Thanks anon. Do you want to e-mail us and we can talk more?
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Anon
8 July 2011
I am not bitter, I am not annoyed, that is all in the past. It took me two years to get a new job. So any annoyance was worth it.
All the while I was working. Almost happily.
I moaned about my wages, but only internally.
Relative to the stalwarts who were sitting above me in the bank I contributed significantly. In the time I worked for a domestic institution I contributed significantly beyond my budgeted levels.
Meanwhile people more senior to me contributed very little, and earned significantly more. Legacy issues.
I moaned about my wages internally only as the top men were taking the money. I dare not moan externally as I understood that so many other people had not worked in such a long time.
I know as well as anyone what it is like in the Irish employment market. As stated, it took me two years to get a job, I left with nothing other than prospects.
For anyone feeling in a state of despair, hold on. Outside Ireland people are a lot more positive. The experience will always keep a door open for you to return.
There is no real recovery in sight in Ireland, not unless one fancies making a move into fund administration, Wages there are low though.
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