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Recruiters anticipate nine per cent growth in Galway opportunities in 2025

One of the country’s leading recruitment agencies is forecasting a nine per cent% growth in recruitment opportunities in Galway this year – with a ten per cent increase in recruitment around the country.

FRS Recruitment anticipates that the strongest growth for Galway will be IT, healthcare and commercial – and nationally IT, healthcare, commercial, industrial, life sciences, agribusiness and construction are expected to see significant growth.

They expect a wide range of positions to be available in Galway in 2025, across the growing sectors and also in other industries. Some of the specific roles FRS Recruitment is anticipating locally include openings for occupational therapists, physiotherapists, developers, retail staff and clerical officers.

FRS believes that increased job opportunities locally and nationally come with several positive factors likely to influence recruitment across the economy in 2025.

These include the anticipated reduction in interest rates, the recovery of the IT sector, more employers seeking to grow their teams after consolidating in 2024, more flexibility in the market with candidates seeking out new opportunities and the removal of the public sector hiring freeze in healthcare.

“We certainly think there will be an increase in recruitment opportunities coming to market in Galway and around the country this year,” said Lynne McCormack, General Manager of FRS Recruitment.

“There is more optimism in the market from employers and candidates alike. We saw this start to come through at the end of 2024 and our full expectation is that will continue locally and nationally throughout 2025.

“”We already have a significant number of employers in Galway who either have openings available or are preparing to bring them to market in the near future. They are making plans to grow their teams, and we fully expect to see quite a bit of movement locally, especially in sectors like IT, healthcare and commercial,” she added.

Ms McCormack acknowledged that this comes after a very challenging year for recruitment in 2024, both in Galway and beyond.

“There was certainly a strong degree of caution in the marketplace last year as employers decided to concentrate on maintaining their existing teams and asking their staff to do more in light of wider economic concerns, high interest rates, cost of business challenges and other considerations,” she said.

“Qualified candidates were also taking a similar outlook, with many potential candidates seeking to enhance their terms and conditions with their existing employers rather than pursuing fresh opportunities. Candidates were primarily playing it safe,” she added.

But already in 2025, she believes that perspective has shifted.

“We’ve had a range of highly qualified candidates reach out to us either side of Christmas expressing their desire to be considered should new opportunities become available this year,” she said.

“There is also a strong pipeline of recruitment activity coming from employers locally. All things considered we expect this will lead to a rise in recruitment activity in Galway and around the country throughout 2025 and there will be a lot more opportunities both coming to market and being successfully filled this year,” Ms. McCormack concluded.

FRS Recruitment has ten offices nationwide, including Galway.

Pictured:  Positive predictions… Lynne McCormack, General Manager of FRS Recruitment

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