Critical Skills Employment Permit Professions
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Critical Skills Employment Permit Professions

7 months ago

by Annemarie Schiemann

Jobseekers

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​Critical Skills Employment Permit List 2024

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​What is a Critical Skills Employment Permit?

The Critical Skills Employment Permit (CSEP) is designed for skilled workers in professions experiencing a shortage of skills in Ireland. To apply for a CSEP, you must have a job offer for a minimum of two years in hand in one of the below professions for an annual salary of at least €38,000.

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What are the benefits of a CSEP?

Upon issuance of your Critical Skills Employment Permit, you can take advantage of various benefits, such as:

  • Immediate eligibility to apply for family reunification for employment permit holders.

  • Dependants, partners, and spouses, once they are residents of the State, can seek any employment and can obtain a Dependant/Partner/Spouse Employment Permit from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation at no cost.

  • After completing the permit's duration, CSEP holders can request permission from the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service to reside and work in Ireland without the need for an employment permit.

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Eligible Employments for the CSEP:

Production Managers and Directors

  • Site Manager

ICT Professionals

  • Information technology and telecommunications directors

Health and Social Services Managers and Directors

  • Senior health services and public health managers and directors

Managers and Proprietors in Agriculture Related Services

  • Professional Forester

  • Resource modelling, earth observation and data analyst

Natural and Social Science Professionals

  • Chemical scientists in manufacturing

  • Medical laboratory scientists

  • Biological scientists and biochemists in manufacturing

  • Physical scientists in manufacturing

  • Meteorologist

  • Operational Forecaster

Engineering Professionals

  • Civil, Structural, and Site Engineers

  • Mechanical & Electrical Engineers

  • Electronics engineers

  • Design and development engineers

  • Production and process engineers

  • Material scientists

  • Setting Out Engineer

  • Façade Designer

  • Project Engineer

Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals

  • IT specialist managers

  • BIM Manager

  • IT project and programme managers

  • IT business analytists, architects and system designers

  • Programmers and software development professionals

  • Web design and development professionals

  • All other ICT professionals not elsewhere classified

Health Professionals

  • Medical practitioners

  • Psychologist

  • Industrial Pharmacists/ Pharmacist

  • Radiographers

  • Radiation therapists

  • Vascular technologists/physiologists

  • Gastro Intestinal technologists/physiologists

  • Podiatrist/Chiropodist

  • Audiologists

  • Perfusionists

  • Dietician

  • Cardiac Physiologist

  • Medical Scientist

Therapy professionals

  • Physiotherapist

  • Occupational Therapist

  • Speech and Language Therapist

  • Orthoptists

Nursing and midwifery professionals

  • Registered Nurses

  • Registered midwives

Teaching and Educational Professionals

Business, Research and Administrative Professionals

  • Chartered and certified accountants and taxation experts

  • Qualified accountants with at least three years’ auditing experience

  • Tax consultants specialising in non-EEA tax consultancy

  • Management consultants and business analysts specialising in big data analytics

  • Business and financial project management professionals specialising in finance & investment

  • Actuaries

  • Economists

  • Statisticians

Architects, Town Planners and Surveyors

  • Architect

  • Quantity surveyors

  • Architectural Technologist

  • Construction project managers

  • Commercial Manager

Welfare Professionals

  • Social Worker

Quality and Regulatory Professionals

  • Quality control and planning engineers

  • Quality assurance and regulatory professionals

  • Environmental health professionals

Media professionals

  • Art Director in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

Draughts persons and Related Architectural Technicians

  • BIM Coordinator/ Technician

Health Associate Professionals

  • PHECC registered Paramedics

  • PHECC registered Advanced Paramedic Practitioners

  • Prosthetists

  • Orthotists

  • Respiratory physiologist

Artistic, Literary and Media Occupations

  • Animation Background and Design Artist in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

Design Occupations

  • Location Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

  • Character Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

  • Prop Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

  • Animation Layout Artist in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year’s experience in the role

Sports and Fitness Occupations

High performance coaches and directors employed by

  • National sports organisations, or

  • High profile sports organisations engaging in international competition

Business, Finance and Related Associate Professionals

  • Estimator

Sales, Marketing and Related Associate Professionals

  • Business sales executives specialising in International Sales Roles or ITB2B sales roles and with fluency in the official language, apart from English, of a state which is not a Member State of the EEA

  • International marketing experts with required domain knowledge specialising in product strategy development and management with technical and product/service knowledge (pharmaceutical, medical devices, Software B2B, SaaS products).

Find more information on citizensinformation.ie. Contact our partner at Work Permit Solutions if you have any questions regarding permits!

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