56% of companies hire returning Irish professionals

Donal O’Brien, managing director, Abrivia Recruitment, Professor Na Fu, associate professor in human resource management, and Dr Charles Larkin, assistant professor and research fellow, Trinity Business School

Irish professionals working overseas are opting to return home in greater numbers, with 56 per cent of the companies surveyed in a new report having hired returning Irish nationals in 2017, up from 47 per cent the previous year.

The trend was strongest in the finance and banking sector at 71 per cent, according to the 2018 Salary, Employment and Economic Trends Survey compiled by Abrivia Recruitment in partnership with Trinity Business School.