High tech multinationals similar to Apple, Google and Microsoft are probably the most fascinating employers for Gen Z college students, new analysis has revealed, with pharmaceutical giants additionally rating extremely.
The Most Enticing Employers Index Eire 2022 was compiled by Universum, a part of IrishJobs.ie, and questioned greater than 8,000 college students in Eire throughout enterprise and economics, IT, engineering, pure sciences, humanities, legislation and medication.
Amongst enterprise and economics, IT and engineering college students, Google, Microsoft and Apple had been the highest three decisions, with Amazon and Intel shut behind. Engineering college students ranked Intel as their best choice.
Airways additionally bounced again from the Covid chill in final 12 months’s rankings, with enterprise and economics college students significantly eager about working on the corporations. For that cohort, Aer Lingus ranked at quantity 12, whereas Ryanair gained 11 locations to quantity 20. The rankings had been ninth and fifteenth respectively for engineering college students.
Excessive-profile engagement with the Covid-19 vaccine improvement effort noticed multinational pharmaceutical corporations proceed to trip excessive within the rankings. For Pure Sciences college students, Pfizer was the best choice, with Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific second and third respectively. The HSE was in fourth place, with Glanbia in fifth.
Pfizer dropped to fifth for engineering college students and fifteenth amongst these finding out IT.
Steve Ward, UK and Eire enterprise director with Universum stated the index provided an vital snapshot of the kind of corporations and attributes that present college students and graduates are looking for of their future employer.
“With famend tech and pharmaceutical multinationals main the best way on this 12 months’s Index, it’s clear that third-level college students are eager play their half in serving to to form the rising digital and scientific transformation that’s underway throughout our financial system and society, not solely in Eire, however throughout the globe. Each science and know-how performed an important function in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling individuals to earn a living from home, companies to proceed functioning and healthcare to happen just about, whereas additionally ensuing within the improvement of quite a lot of vaccines to assist defend individuals throughout what was an especially unsettling and unsure interval,” he stated.
“The success of tech leaders similar to Google, Microsoft, Apple and Intel out there, and their capacity to embrace new applied sciences and drive innovation throughout this era, have emerged as key drivers for college students in selecting these corporations, one thing which ought to assist to present a sign of the kind of attributes graduates right now are looking for of their future employer.”
There have been new entries to the index, with An Publish, Irish Rail and AXA Insurance coverage coming into the rankings. Mr Ward stated it was encouraging to see Irish corporations rating nicely amongst college students on this 12 months’s index.
