2020 job postings dip

There was slight drop in jobs postings offered on Leeside in 2020, a recruitment company announced this week.

FRS Recruitment recorded a four per cent decrease in the number of job postings offered in Cork during 2020, but are forecasting a 25 per cent increase in job postings nationwide in the coming year.

The Cork experience reflected the national trend, with a 36 per cent drop in job postings nationally recorded by FRS Recruitment over the past 12 months, due to the impact of the pandemic.

FRS is predicting 2021 will be a year of two halves in recruitment, but that the overall market should see a strong improvement over the course of the year. The year will start slowly but the rollout of the vaccine will bring confidence back to the market and that will create a strong pipeline of employment opportunities as businesses seek extra resources in the second half of the year.

Demand for healthcare workers is likely to see overseas based candidates come back into consideration and there will be a continued demand for skilled IT personnel, it said.

Other sectors likely to experience a strong increase in demand include roles in construction, life science as well as for temporary commercial and industrial personnel.

These trends were published in FRS Recruitment’s 2020 Review and 2021 Trend Forecast, titled From Job Security to Opportunity.

Colin Donnery, General Manager of FRS Recruitment, said: “There is no doubt 2020 has been a challenging year for many sections of the economy, and that has been reflected in the number of recruitment opportunities there were in Cork and nationally.

“We strongly anticipate seeing growth over the course of 2021 and that there will be more opportunities available in Cork and around the rest of the country as the recruitment environment begins to normalise.”