Since last month’s Leaving Cert results were released and the subsequent CAO offers were sent out the Evening Herald have revealed that the number of young people emigrating is at it’s highest level since 2010.
In the past 12 months more than 30,000 young people have left Ireland for new pastures, despite the recovering economy.
The Irish League of Credit Unions have also conducted a survey of Leaving Cert students. 36% of those asked said that they don’t believe that there is a bright future for them in Ireland after they finish college. Furthermore, 21% of students felt that they won’t be able to find employment after graduating.
In addition to a lack of encouragement about the future, rising college costs are also driving young people to emigrate after their Leaving Cert.
When it comes to college graduates the picture looks quite similar. As documented in The Irish Times as part of their series on emigration, a young Irish student from Galway tells of how “more than half her class [including her] from NUI Galway have moved abroad to find work since they graduated in June last year.”
“There are few jobs, it’s competitive and, naturally, those with experience will be preferential candidates. It can be frustrating at times,” she says. New graduates like her are eager to gain experience, she says, but are often expected to do so with little or no pay.
“Recently reading about a JobBridge post for a clinical psychologist in Waterford to be paid an extra €50 on top of social welfare, I was pretty disheartened.”
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