I was talking to the group of recruiters in Galway a lot about all different industries niches where it is really hard to find candidates to fill the jobs. Recruiters are in general happy when candidates are hard to find, since if it wouldn't be hard, no one would use a recruitment agency anyway, but just advertise directly on any Irish jobs board, or search some CV database. But some jobs are getting really hard to fill lately. You can see those job types by extremely hue marketing budgets for jobs in those industries. One such example are Java Jobs in Galway.
Java Jobs in Galway
What makes it so hard to find a java developer in Galway today? The questions asked have all been on if there are (and we all know that there are!) java developers in Galway today at all? Are they all employed? They obviously are since no one is really applying for jobs in java development in Galway today. Regardless of where you advertise, regardless how much you spend on promotion.
I suggested talking to the already placed candidates for java jobs recently, regardless of the location of work. What made them choose the current employer, and what made (if it was a choice) them choose the current work location – especially if it was Galway. I also called a few people I know and results are actually quite unexpected, at least to me. But first things first…
Graduate java Developer gets almost the double salary offered than a school teacher. Experienced java developer gets more than a school principal! And this experience required is no longer than 5 years – since in the software development world, the ‘old’ experience becomes irrelevant soon because of fast paced technology change.
Although it was a small sample (statistically) of the people I spoke to there have been two reasons almost every java developer mentioned:
- Salary
- Company stability and future growth prospect.
What does this really mean to the employer today – and how will you fill your java jobs?
- If you are a start up – present yourself as a future Facebook or Google to the candidate. Only if they buy into your idea will you ever hire them.
- If you are the SME – Salary is what you will have to boost through the roof.
- If you are Google or Facebook – have a nice brand like that – just boost your career growth opportunities.
I hope this little recruitment cookbook helps you filing your java jobs in Galway!