Start-ups look the business as graduates seek to make own way

Guest speaker at the 2015 Student Summit Patrick Hamilton Walsh (left) with Greg O’Donoghue, vice president for welfare at the Union of Students in Ireland. Mr Hamilton Walsh spent several years travelling the world while documenting his trip with a mobile phone. That adventure eventually led him to Sweden where he has been helping develop the image-sharing platform PicHit

Mark Hilliard - It’s wise to say it quietly but one positive outcome of the recession is a growing shift in mindset amongst the country’s nascent generation of professionals. No longer do college graduates automatically hone their CVs, trawl the classifieds and brush up on interview techniques. In the emerging 21st century economy, entrepreneurship is the new prosperity.

For many, the idea of traditional jobs has become insipid.

Neophyte business minds are instead dreaming of innovation, progressing industry, inspiring change and, paradoxically, becoming the ones who provide employment.

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