Ireland Faces Emigration Nightmare As 75% Of Professionals Plan To Flee If Things Don't Get Better

Three out of four professionals would leave Ireland if economic conditions don't improve within the next three years, according to recruitment firm Hays Ireland (via TheJournal.ie).
Hays Ireland found that most of the respondents don't believe things are getting better. Here are the most interesting takeaways from the survey:
- 35% of the respondents left Ireland during the last three years to find work, some because they felt like they had no other option.
- Of those who left, 27% headed to the UK, 22% to elsewhere in Europe, 15% to Australasia, and only 7% headed to North America.
- Three out of five emigrants said that the quality of life was better where they had moved.
- Two out of three respondents are not confident that employment prospects will improve within the next three years.
- 81% of professionals do not think the government jobs scheme will work.
Irish emigration is a pressing issue at the moment. A think tank estimated that 100,000 people will leave Ireland by April 2012, and an Irish man recently took out a billboard on Dublin's busy Merrion road asking for someone to hire him to so he didn't have to emigrate.
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