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Brain Drain (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (10 children)

We desperately want out of the US so I've been trying to find a tech job in Ireland since 2024. I've had one interview in that time... how did you do it?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I have a British parent, got the passport about 15 years ago. Unfortunately my wife and child need visas to live here, we have to deal with that in a couple months again, and continue until they're eligible for leave to remain. I think my kid can naturalize in a while, but my wife will need to seek citizenship if Reform gets into power.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, just get the citizenship now, rather than later (if feasible); I know it's a different country so things certainly aren't a necessary one-to-one but my mom's side of the family is all immigrants and, while it might not be safe for much longer in the U. S., I'm thankful every day we're not dealing with a much more immediate Hell because they all got their citizenship finally 10–15 years ago, when conditions were much less pressing.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You're probably right. She's still a little burnt out on high stakes testing after going back through uni for a new career, but we'll probably seek it as soon as they're both eligible.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    It's possible to get jobs in other countries with English-only. Sorry I don't have specifics, and of course that isn't a guarantee, but I know this to be true at least in the Nordics. Some companies even communicate in English internally.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Have you tried recruitment agencies? They're unusually popular here and might help you get over the hump.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've sent emails to fourteen different recruitment agencies based in Ireland, places like:

    redchairrecruitment.ie gcsltd.com/ireland randstad.ie

    I used erfireland.com to search for recruitment agencies and just went down the list sending emails. The only one to respond was red chair and they essentially said "you're in the US so you're fucked, glhf".

    If you know of one (or twenty) I could try, please do send them my way!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry for the delay. It's been a while since I looked for a job so I'm not entirely sure. Have you a particular focus in tech? The last place I worked for did hire foreign workers and got their visas sorted. If you're in cyber for example there's quite a shortage here in that particular field but in general there are lots of multinationals here and experience is highly valued.

    jobs.ie is the big jobs marketplace but I'm sure you've come across that already.

    Also, and you're probably aware of this, if you have an Irish grandparent it's Irish passport time. My sister is quite a bit older than me and her grandkids all have Irish passports even though she lives abroad.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No worries, you're not obligated to answer me haha. I'm the lead software engineer on an important fincancial web and desktop app so my focus would be full stack dev with leadership and travel experience. Coming up on ten years experience outside university this year. I've done encryption, safe coding practices, and even have my COMPTIA Security+ certification but I wouldn't say I have cyber security experience specifically.

    I check jobs.ie and irishjobs.ie every day, as well as several other sites like ie.indeed and Glassdoor.ie. The best site I've found so far, hands down, is visasponsor.jobs; they usually only show positions which specifically mention sponsoring visas. There's currently only 24 positions showing on their site and I've either applied to them or don't have the skills.

    I simply don't have parents/grandparents to ask about my heritage. I'm quite certain my grandparents lived and died here in the states based on the information I've found. Though, 23andme says I ~90% come from London/Dublin area so I suppose it's not impossible they were born elsewhere and the documents either don't exist or aren't accessible to me.

    Feel free to dm me, especially if you might recommend me to a position! (or if you just wanna be friends, of course)

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