Sol Invictus
02-17-2010, 03:42 PM
Kerry Capell | BusinessWeek | February 17, 2010
When Simon Phelan started a civil engineering degree at Dublin’s Trinity College four years ago, he figured his biggest problem upon graduation would be deciding which job to choose. Ireland’s economy was growing at 5.4%, unemployment was a mere 4.4%, and construction was booming.
Today, with graduation fast approaching, only two of Phelan’s 100 classmates have even had interviews. Worse, in these recession-scarred times, just two people from the class ahead of him are employed.
So Phelan and many contemporaries see emigration as the only option.
“The lack of jobs is driving people away,” the 20-year-old Dubliner says after trawling through the meager offerings at Trinity’s career office, a small building tucked off the school’s cobblestoned quadrangle.
“Ireland will lose a whole generation of graduates.”
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When Simon Phelan started a civil engineering degree at Dublin’s Trinity College four years ago, he figured his biggest problem upon graduation would be deciding which job to choose. Ireland’s economy was growing at 5.4%, unemployment was a mere 4.4%, and construction was booming.
Today, with graduation fast approaching, only two of Phelan’s 100 classmates have even had interviews. Worse, in these recession-scarred times, just two people from the class ahead of him are employed.
So Phelan and many contemporaries see emigration as the only option.
“The lack of jobs is driving people away,” the 20-year-old Dubliner says after trawling through the meager offerings at Trinity’s career office, a small building tucked off the school’s cobblestoned quadrangle.
“Ireland will lose a whole generation of graduates.”
Read More Here (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_08/b4167050028125.htm)