New changes in the Ireland’s employment process.

     

  Several changes have been made in the Ireland’s employment process, benefitting the people looking to pursue a job in Ireland. Apart from making the process online, immediate changes are made to the Highly Skilled Eligible Occupations List (HSEOL) and the Ineligible Categories of Employment List (ICEL) allowing Irish sponsoring companies to employ more foreign nationals. Further, the requirements for Trainees under Intra-Company Transfers have also been relaxed. So,

What are the Changes?

Employment Permits Online System (EPOS) moves forward.

The Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation (DJEI) announced last week that it will be assisting employers by making the Employment Permits process easier and faster for their foreign workers. In September, the DJEI will roll out its new Employment Permits Online System (EPOS), which will provide intuitive online application completion and filing, document submission, and fee payment for Employment Permits in Ireland. This much-anticipated improvement should result in a more convenient process with a faster turn-around time for applicants.

Relaxed Requirement for ICT Trainees

In the final noteworthy part of last week’s announcement, the DJEI reduced the minimum employment period for Trainees under the Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) Permit scheme from six months to one month. Now foreign national trainees only employed with their foreign employer for one month are eligible for assignments at the company’s branch or affiliate in Ireland. These changes to the HSEOL and ICEL lists and to the ICT trainee regulations are effective immediately, and the details will be incorporated into the new EPOS online application process and the accompanying amended forms due out in early September.

Additions to occupation lists.

Also to support employers experiencing labour shortages, the DJEI has made immediate additions to the HSEOL list, which determines whether an applicant holds an occupation eligible for a Critical Skills Employment Permit. The DJEI also made adjustments to the ICEL list of occupations ineligible for employment permits.

The following occupations have been added to the HSEO

·         Paramedics

·         Respiratory physiologists

·         Tax consultants specializing in non-EEA taxes

·         Accountants working in the multinational corporation (MNC) global audit services.          

        These changes are extremely positive and are welcomed by the international community of overseas workers. 

Foreign Employment: Pain Point Part - 2

The brokerage of Intellectual Capital drives down wages, and foreign guest workers are often underpaid. Multiple layers of broker agencies, that earn a per hour commission of their visa sponsored employee create a grey market. Large scale grey market with invisible recruitment happening online to poach workers from India is a growing concern. Knowledge Workers have a need to receive the right information at the right time from the right source that will help them make an informed decision without the intervention of a broker agent in the rapidly changing knowledge economy. So, whether it is a job seeker that needs to verify an employment offer made by a foreign employer or the recruiter overseas that questions job seekers professional experience in India, PROVE (Professional Registry of Verified Employers) therefore,  fulfills the needs of the Foreign Employer and Indian Worker.

Foreign Employment: Pain Point Part - 1

• American work visa sponsors bind their sponsored employee via elaborate employment contracts, prohibiting them the freedom to find work elsewhere. 
• America’s ‘staffing only’ firms (similar to HR agencies), can also sponsor a work visa for a citizen from abroad. In terms of recruitment, the term ‘employer’ therefore is ambiguous and misleading for a worker in India, to whom the complexities of ‘dual employment’ overseas are largely unknown.    
  

PROVE (Professional Registry of Verified Employers) offers an open transparent system where workers are sought by employers globally, against them being pushed by greedy corporate from India. The registry helps fill in the gap of information that the Indian Knowledge Workers heading abroad face when it comes to knowing their rights.

Receive Immigration And Visa Related Counseling Services

• Once all the documentation falls into place, we make certain that your further journey is a hassle-free one. 
• We connect you to the Immigration experts who are legal practitioners of foreign labor as well as immigration laws, who give you the right advice at the right time.

Get your Resume Verified

• Does your foreign employer needs your resume to be verified?  Don‘t worry! Our team of experts will verify your employment history and work experience documents suitable for the job you’re applying overseas. 
• Please note that more than 90% of people fail to get a job because of an unreliable resume. 
• We do not just market your resume we create a holistic approach right from vetting your work history, to creating a verified profile on PROVE, to marketing the profile to the right recruiters.

Ask for a Foreign Employer Verification Report

• You already have a job offer abroad. What Next? Before you seal the contracts, you must research the inside information about the proposed employer and this is exactly what our membership provides you. 
• We bring you the knowledge of the required employer with their complete government database. 
• We make sure that you do not fall prey to the immigration scams and recruitment fraud.

Take the Foreign Employment Suitability Test

• A scientifically designed test that will do a psychometric analysis of your personality and conduct an overall assessment of your abilities. 
• This gives your overseas employers a good idea about your overall personality and they can easily judge that you are a match for them. 
• We save the time and trouble both, for you and your future employers.

Globalization induced labor displacement

Though global migration is seen as a growing necessity, most countries impose restrictions prohibiting mobility of individuals. The Economic Intelligence Unit briefing report ‘Paper Chase – Document fraud in the Immigration process’, states that even though host governments are in favor of allowing inward migration, the proliferation of fraudulent documentation is on the rise, causing delays in the immigration screening process. The risks posed by fraudulent documents are on the rise and the forged documents industry links directly to people-smuggling / human-trafficking and other organized crimes.

The percentage of resume fraud in India has seen an increase. Firms have already begun sharing the database of job applicants who have faked information in their CV’s. IT sector is the second most affected vertical, while the banking sector has the highest discrepancies, when it comes to fudged resumes. One in every four CVs received by the IT services firms is known to have discrepancies. And one in every six CVs in the BPO industry is fudged. While the problem is dominant at the fresher level, it goes up to the senior levels as well.

In the developing country, the final employment impact of increasing trade depends on the interaction between the productivity growth and output growth – both in traded goods sectors and in non-traded sectors. While on hand exports involve demand-led employment growth, but – on the other hand – imports may displace previously protected domestic firms, including labor redundancy. In the presence of supply constraints, productivity growth may exceed output growth even in the exporting sectors, to the detriment of job creation. Therefore, sheltered sectors in the labor market may act as labor sinks, often implying hidden unemployment and underemployment. These incident labor sinks are the areas of employment which are filled by the out-of-state migrant workers.

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Emergence of temporary staffing

A vast majority of foreign employers that advertise for local jobs on Indian career sites and LinkedIn groups are in the temp staffing arena, where they don’t have jobs, but attempt to fill their end client’s job vacancies! These companies therefore rely heavily on their good reputation among technical professionals to agree to be submitted for a potential contract.  As the demand for foreign workers starts to increase, the process of supplying to this demand in the shortest possible time will be critical for companies dependent on Indian labor.

Companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much larger universe of contract workers. Hiring is always healthy for an economy. Yet the rise in temp and contract work shows that many employers aren't willing to hire for the long run.

Temporary workers are often paid less than full-time workers, and are not likely to receive any benefits. Such workers are less likely to have health insurance or retirement benefits, or be protected by labor laws. Not providing health insurance means that ailing workers often rely on emergency room treatment or Medicaid, treatment scenarios in which the costs are largely covered by the public, adding to the taxpayer burden — a charge.

Normally, temp work is not something that economists worry about. Employers often hire temps instead of permanent staff in the early stages of an economic recovery while confidence is still shaky. And temporary or contractor jobs, including the sort on offer through tech companies can be pulled in the labor market for people who might otherwise fail to find a way in, such as the inexperienced or the long-term unemployed.

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You grow up to be a stronger person while studying abroad!

When you think of people studying abroad, you see their selfies in class and you see them cooking Indian food with a bunch of Indian people, but those are just photo montages, not the whole truth.

It doesn’t show you the apprehension, the nervous butterflies and the sinking feeling of leaving everything familiar on this side of the ocean. You don’t click pictures of your first day in class when you are trying really hard to fit in and find people to connect with.

You learn to eat alone at restaurants and watch movies alone in cinema. You learn that you don’t need to depend on people for most things

You learn that everyone who lives there can run to their siblings, best friends from primary school if they want to. Meanwhile only your computer is waiting for you in your room.

It’s been an uphill battle and sometimes it runs you to the ground, but you manage to grow up, to become responsible for yourself, to understand the world outside of a safe cocoon. You come out resilient and strong.

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