Software company SAP is joining forces globally with Specialisterne to employ people with autism as software testers, programmers and data quality assurance specialists following pilot projects in Ireland and India.
21.May.2013 11:39
Daily deals site Groupon is coming to Ireland and is currently recruiting at least 30 people to work at a new international headquarters that will be located on St Stephens Green in Dublin’s city centre.
21.May.2013 07:01
Thirty-nine per cent of projects valued in excess of €5.9m fail, and only 2.5pc of 10,500 projects from 200 international companies have been successfully completed, studies suggest. That’s a lot of pressure on project managers, the subject of this week’s career memes.
21.May.2013 06:00
In the past year, new work permit schemes in Ireland have brought in an estimated €10.5m of investment in terms of the creation and retention of 270 jobs in ICT, recycling and financial services.
17.May.2013 11:22
Business process outsourcing and professional services company Capita is to create 800 jobs over the next three years, doubling the number of people it employs in Ireland.
17.May.2013 11:07
A graduate IT training programme developed in Ireland 10 years ago has emerged as the key weapon in global financial services company Fidelity’s efforts to overcome the skills gap in the ICT sector.
16.May.2013 15:46
The annual forum of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) Foundation in London marked the launch today of a revised ECDL programme to offer a wider range of models and, overall, make the programme more flexible and suitable to lifelong learning.
16.May.2013 13:45
Multinational IT firm EMC, which recently partnered with University College Cork (UCC) on two data-focused business courses, believes that more interdisciplinary big data programmes are needed in Ireland’s third-level education system to provide suitable candidates for a growing jobs market.
16.May.2013 13:14
LinkedIn has more than 220,000 job opportunities listed on its website, the business social network says, and its new infographic highlights some of the more unique roles.
16.May.2013 06:00
Software and telecoms provider Asidua has revealed plans to create 16 new jobs, more than doubling the company’s headcount.
15.May.2013 16:50
Fortune 100 property insurer Allstate is to create up to 650 high quality technology jobs in Belfast, Derry and Strabane, it emerged today.
14.May.2013 15:57
Collegefeed, a new social network led by former Google head of product marketing Sanjeev Agrawal, opens its doors today. The new social network describes itself as a kind of LinkedIn for students aimed at kick-starting their careers by landing them their first jobs.
14.May.2013 15:30
Ireland's Research and Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock, TD, has launched a new web resource targeted specifically at businesses to help them access information on R&D funding and to advertise jobs for researchers.
14.May.2013 13:24
Photography is everywhere - on ads, posters, billboards, and in magazines and newspapers, encompassing just about every subject, from food to high fashion. Photographers, as a result, can find a career in a variety of fields, but all photographers require a blend of artistic and technical skills. Just like these, er, memes in their honour.
14.May.2013 06:00
With so much dialogue generated around Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-seller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Ann O’Dea caught up with two of Facebook’s most senior directors in Europe to get their views on the Lean In phenomenon.
11.May.2013 18:11
Microsoft has promoted Amy Hood, the CFO of its US$24.1bn business division, to CFO of the entire company, making her Microsoft’s first female chief financial officer and the highest-ranking woman at the software giant.
10.May.2013 10:37
