Anon writes:
“Aecom again exploiting Jobridge despite just buying a competitor for $6bn. Where does it end?”
JobBridge: Quantity Surveyor, Dublin 2 (Indeed)
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Anon writes:
“Aecom again exploiting Jobridge despite just buying a competitor for $6bn. Where does it end?”
JobBridge: Quantity Surveyor, Dublin 2 (Indeed)
This is precisely the opposite of exploiting the job bridge scheme. This is exactly what it should be used for. Most large multinationals in the US will employ interns for a year in order for them to gain the experience required to seek out a paid position.
This is the opposite of exploiting the system.
Quick fit is an example of exploiting the system, anyone using it for unskilled labour is exploiting he system.
This actually sounds like a great opportunity for a college leaver.
This is far from the worst example of a JobBridge but it is difficult to see where the net benefit lies here.
This is effectively a graduate position being advertised as an internship. Mentioning large American multinationals is irrelevant since AECOM in Ireland largely bid for and carry out Irish work.
This allows AECOM ( a behemoth created by buying up smaller firms worldwide) underbid Irish firms which employ graduates. There is no net gain of skills to the economy.
There aren’t a whole lot of Irish firms employing graduates either ….
I know of a number of firms in that space which have deliberately taken the decision not to employ unpaid interns, all of whom are hiring grads this year.
Anyway, the point was that using JobBridge this way makes it much more difficult for businesses to take on graduate positions, especially in a competitive field.
This is EXACTLY what JobBridge is for. It sounds like the person will gain valuable experience, although that remains to be seen.
JobBridge is not for hiring someone to flip burgers or stack boxes.
Sounds alright in fairness.
I’d rather gain experience here than ‘learning’ to make tea and sweep floors.
HappyDub, Aecom can afford to take on workers rather than state subsidised interns.
I understand, but they are using a facility put in place to help inexperienced people gain experience in a real job, where they can learn valuable skills, and if they show they have an aptitude for the job then they may be kept on permenently. If not, they have gained valuable experience they can use to look for work in a similar area.
If I was given the choice of a useless FAS scheme or a job like this for 9 months, I know what I’d choose. I understand they are a massive company, but they are giving somebody with no experience a chance, rather than exclusively hiring people with a 2:1 from Trinity (Paddy Cosgrave et al).
Person gains experience, company saves a few quid, win win.
Its good experience.
Ye I am not sure what the issue here is. Surely this is the point of jobridge, getting proper experience not the usual crap that we see on here relating to it. This position would actually help your career not like the pointless things we have seen with chippers advertising positions and that sort of useless stuff.
Don’t think this should really be up on broadsheet.
Probably one of the better Jobbridge gigs on offer. Nothing much wrong with that at all.
Naive perhaps, but I assumed Jobridge was also for struggling companies who couldn’t afford to take someone on.
So, in supporting AECOM, can the Government now support one less struggling company?
Yeah you assumed wrong. If only struggling companies could advertise then it would surely be a horrible atmosphere to work and learn in.
See reply below from diddy
My main problem with jobsbridge is that is requires the applicant to be a minimum of three months in the past 6 months on benefits – so effectively graduates will need to go sign on as soon as they graduate unless they have been on a back to education allowance etc. The vast majority of people in college are not on any benefits and are somewhat being screwed by the system. Why can’t these internships be aimed at graduates as well as the long term unemployed?
So yes, this is a good opportunity but it would be much better if they offered an open unpaid internship where the applicant could apply to the welfare office for benefits to get them through the year? Or does that make too much sense?
Obviously it would be better if people were getting offered permanent paid jobs. That is taken as given. But the fact is, this should take someone from the dole, get them working, improve their employability and then get them off the dole.
Getting the Government to fork out for all graduates is crazy. Why would any firm hire a graduate in a real job if they knew that the Government would subsidise their job as soon as they leave education?
heres one to get annoyed at instead
http://goo.gl/GV0uns
Good experience yes.
The duration is far too long, should be half that at a max.
The state is paying for this …. the taxpayer is paying for this… WE ARE paying for this… Aecom are getting free labour..
I know of multinationals here worth billions using jobbridge.. and they’re not hiring the people they have in once the ‘internship’ is completed. They’re just getting in new ‘interns’. These positions would have been paid positions, prior to them qualifying for a number of jobbridge allocations.
The government will pay an extra 50 quid on your dole, to make themselves look good.
Employment now down x percent compared to this time last year
And yet, the bill for this increases at our expense… but the percentage of ‘unemployed’ is down.
Fiddling with the figures at the expense of peoples’ lives.. working for very little at no cost to the ’employer’.
Flupping c*nts..
I think its a fair one. Most multinationals hire interns (ie. recent grads or as part of a master programme). Most of the professional staff in my job (international Civil service) got in this way, as they gained experience and contacts & then the permanent posts were created with them in mind. Most if them are unpaid and for over 3 months. I think any recent graduate should be happy to get this for €250 a week. I think an internship cleaning cars & flipping burgers is a joke but this one looks like a fair deal to me.
I don’t think it’s 250 a week. It’s whatever social welfare entitlement you’re on, plus 50 quid.
Unemployed under 25s are on 100 a week as far as I know. So, that’d be 100 + 50 which equals 150.
The positions I’ve seen interns do in multinationals, they don’t gain that much experience in.
It seems particularly unjust when these companies are worth billions..
“Most of the professional staff in my job (international Civil service) got in this way”
I thought it would have been nepotism myself.
This is a great opportunity.