Quickhirealert publishes practical, plain-English guides to working in Ireland — job opportunities, employment permits, visa routes and the day-to-day realities of relocating.

Irish immigration and employment-permit rules change often. Salary thresholds moved on 1 March 2026. The Critical Skills Occupations List was revised in May 2026. The Employment Permits Act 2024 rewrote the rules on changing employer. Most of what you find online about working in Ireland was written before those changes and is quietly out of date — which, when you are planning a move or an application, is worse than no information at all.

This site exists to fix that specific problem.

What we cover

• Employment permits — the Critical Skills Employment Permit, the General Employment Permit, eligibility rules, salary thresholds, fees and processing.
• Job searching in Ireland — which sectors sponsor international workers, how Irish employers hire, and how to write a CV that reads as Irish rather than American.
• Moving and settling — immigration registration, PPS numbers, Revenue registration, Stamp 1 and Stamp 4, and family reunification.
• Job listings and market updates for Dublin, Cork, Galway and beyond.

How we research and verify our guides

Everything on this site that touches a legal or financial fact is checked against primary official sources — not other blogs, not forums, and not recruitment-agency marketing pages.

Our working standards:

• Official sources only for rules and figures. Salary thresholds, fees, eligibility criteria and processing rules come from the Irish government bodies that set them.
• Contextual citations. Where a guide states a threshold, a fee or a deadline, we link to the official page that supports that specific statement, so you can verify it yourself rather than take our word for it.
• Visible verification dates. Our permit guides carry a “last updated” line showing when the information was last checked.
• We do not publish estimates as guarantees. Processing times fluctuate, so we point readers to the official live processing-dates page instead of inventing a number.
• We correct things. When rules change or we get something wrong, we update the article rather than leaving it to age.

The sources we rely on

Our permit and immigration content is built on these official Irish sources:

• Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment — employment permit rules, occupation lists, salary thresholds and fees
• Immigration Service Delivery — visas, immigration permission, registration and stamps
• Citizens Information — plain-language explanations of Irish rights and procedures
• Revenue — tax registration and PAYE
• Quality and Qualifications Ireland — recognition of overseas qualifications

Who writes here

Quickhirealert is written and edited by Muhammad Hammad.

Muhammad has spent years helping people find work. He started this site after seeing how much of the advice available on working in Ireland was out of date or simply wrong — salary thresholds from two years ago, permit rules that changed in 2024, occupation lists that had since been revised.

His background is in job searching and recruitment rather than immigration law. That shapes how this site works: the careers and job-search guidance comes from practical experience of how hiring actually happens, while every permit, visa and immigration rule is researched against the official Irish government sources listed above and dated so you can see when it was last checked. Where a question needs a qualified professional, we say so rather than guess.

You can reach him through the contact page.

Important: this is information, not advice

Quickhirealert is an independent publisher. We are not immigration lawyers, registered immigration advisers, tax advisers or recruiters, and we are not affiliated with the Irish Government or any of the bodies listed above.

Nothing on this site is legal, immigration or tax advice. Our guides describe how the rules generally work; they cannot account for the specifics of your case. Immigration decisions carry real consequences, so before you act — especially before resigning from a job, paying a fee or booking travel — confirm your position against the official sources linked in every article, or speak to a qualified professional.

We also never charge readers for job applications or permit help, and we have no financial relationship with any employer or recruitment agency we mention. If a legitimate Irish recruitment agency ever asks you for a fee to find you work, that is a warning sign — agencies are paid by employers, not candidates.

Corrections

If you spot something that is out of date, unclear or simply wrong, please tell us. Corrections on immigration content matter more than almost anything else we publish, and we would rather hear about a mistake than let it sit.

Use our contact page and include the page name and, where you can, a link to the official source. We check every report and update the article where a correction is warranted.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, corrections or partnership enquiries are all welcome through the contact page. We read everything, though we cannot advise on individual immigration cases.