12.04.2013 Ireland has become a base for a number of global tech companies, including major multinationals like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and PayPal. This booming technology sector has brought with it increased demand for multilingual staff in sales, support and customer service, though supply continues to be short.
13.03.2013 NUI Galway students, as well as members of the public, will be able to get the scoop on all it takes to start a business at an event in Galway City featuring Barry O’Sullivan, senior vice-president at Cisco Systems and one of the new investors on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den programe.
12.03.2013 International Women’s Day has been and gone, but Silicon Republic’s Women Invent Tomorrow campaign has just begun. We spoke to visitors to Accenture Ireland’s International Women’s Day event in the RDS last Friday to find out how we can inspire more women to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths.
08.03.2013 Today was a landmark day for Silicon Republic with the launch of our year-long campaign to highlight the role that women play in the areas of science, technology, engineering and maths, and to inspire more to follow in their footsteps.
02.03.2013 Want a job at Apple? So do a lot of other people, but a new infographic offers up the intel on how to snag a position at the consumer tech giant.
01.03.2013 Ruairi Spillane, the man behind Moving2Canada (a website that has given free guidance and advice to more than 35,000 Irish people looking to make the move to Canada), tells us why he decided to add recruitment services to his repertoire and offers tips on how Irish job seekers can find success abroad.
11.01.2013 According to Glassdoor, one in five employees plan to look for a new job in the next three months, but what would these job seekers say in an interview if they came up against one of the site’s Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions for 2013?
28.11.2012 Career Zoo, Ireland’s only career event targeted at professionals and graduates, returns to the Convention Centre Dublin on Saturday, 9 February next year, with a major focus on upskilling into the tech sector and on jobs in Irish software companies.
12.11.2012 A start-up jobs fair with a twist will be taking place at the Workman’s Club in Dublin tomorrow evening, with the aim of hooking up undergraduates and graduates with start-ups from Dublin’s tech scene that are currently hiring.
24.09.2012 At CareerZoo on Saturday, we spoke to young software entrepreneurs: CoderDojo's James Whelton and Shane Curran, as well as senior executives at Enterprise Ireland and the NDRC to get their views on skills in demand and the 'global battle for talent'.
