The latest figures from the Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor show an increase in job vacancies for the month of April, with the tech sector remaining a key recruiter.
09.May.2013 11:56
Business consultancy Deloitte is to create 177 new jobs over the next three years at its Belfast Technology Studio, on the back of a stg£1.2m investment from Invest NI in the studio’s expansion.
07.May.2013 13:45
It’s a good time for game developers in Ireland right now. Employment in the country’s digital gaming sector grew 90pc between 2009 and 2012, and this growth rate can be accelerated and sustained over the next three years.
07.May.2013 06:00
Former Northern Ireland chief information officer (CIO) and deputy CIO for the UK cabinet Bill McCluggage has been appointed chief information officer by the Irish Government. McCluggage will take responsibility for the development of the ICT strategy for the Irish Government and the wider public service.
03.May.2013 15:25
EU Enterprise and Innovation ministers are in Dublin today for a series of talks on how SMEs could hold the key to creating jobs and drive European growth.
03.May.2013 15:09
More than 300 delegates from around the world are expected to descend on Dublin later this month for a two-day conference called Open Innovation 2.0 to explore how a new approach to innovation and research can create jobs.
02.May.2013 17:59
The successor to Paul Otellini as CEO of Intel is Brian Krzanich, currently the company's chief operating officer.
02.May.2013 16:03
We talk to Intel’s first Irish female vice-president, Ann Kelleher. Appointed vice-president in 2011, Kelleher is responsible for Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group and is co-general manager of Fab Sort Manufacturing, where she is responsible for seven Intel plants and a workforce of 13,500 in Ireland, the US, China and Israel.
02.May.2013 15:13
Irish car parts and accessories e-commerce retailer MicksGarage.com is to create 65 new jobs over the next two years on the back of a €2.3m investment to expand the business.
02.May.2013 10:52
Waterford-headquartered cloud and mobile software player FeedHenry has secured €7m in a funding round led by Intel Capital. The injection of funding will lead to the creation of more than 100 jobs at the company’s Wateford and Dublin offices.
02.May.2013 07:02
An independent evaluation of Ireland's internship scheme JobBridge claims it is among the most successful of its kind in Europe, with three in five participants securing employment.
01.May.2013 18:24
Web publishing platform player Squarespace is to create 100 new jobs in Dublin, the IDA revealed this morning. The New York company’s platform allows anyone to easily create professional blogs, web pages, stores and galleries without touching a line of code.
01.May.2013 09:08
Dairy ingredients company Glanbia Ingredients Ireland has announced its plan to build a new dairy facility in Belview on the Kilkenny/Waterford border that is expected to create 1,600 direct and indirect jobs and contribute circa €400m per year to the Irish economy.
30.Apr.2013 15:38
Picture the scene: it is the mid-1980s at University College Cork (UCC) and a lecture hall fills with engineering students. Initially, nothing looks out of the ordinary except for the rather glaring fact that of the 55 students in the room, only five are female. One of those five young women was Ann Kelleher, who two years ago became the first Irish woman to be appointed vice-president at chip giant Intel.
30.Apr.2013 14:37
A major expansion of Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin may create about 300 jobs. The social networking giant has reached a €3.5m agreement to rent space in the Daniel Libeskind building in Grand Canal Square.
30.Apr.2013 09:56
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” That quote attributed to theoretical physicist Albert Einstein can hold true for anyone in any profession, but particularly scientists, who star in this week's career memes.
30.Apr.2013 06:00
