21.05.2013 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.
14.05.2013 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.
26.03.2013 Three Irish designers have been included in the recently launched international publication Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 and to follow that recognition, this week’s career memes place graphic designers in the spotlight.
05.03.2013 Web and email security player FireEye is establishing its EMEA technical support centre in Cork City and with it 150 new jobs. To mark the occasion and our first ‘Career memes of the week’, we tip our hat to the real IT crowd that fixes our computers and resurrects our mobile devices.
15.02.2013 Intern hopefuls wanting to work for a highly rated company should try and land themselves an internship at internet search giant Google, ranked No 1 in Glassdoor’s second annual report of the Top 20 Highest Rated Companies Hiring Interns Right Now.
07.02.2013 Pay rates for IT and project management professionals fell again during 2012 but the decline slowed compared to 2011. However, the tradeoff is higher expectations of productivity, with 55pc of IT pros saying they’re expected to work additional hours for no extra money.
15.01.2013 If ‘professional development through learning new skills’ is your top professional goal this year, you’re not alone, as it’s the No 1 professional goal in Brazil and the US, as well, a study by business social network LinkedIn reveals.
09.01.2013 Application development is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, and the number of app developers and their potential salaries are growing steadily, a new infographic shows.
04.12.2012 Good news for workers in IT and the creative fields – they are likely to see above-average salary increases in the coming year due to high demand for them and as organisations boost their digital presence and investments in IT infrastructure.
18.10.2012 Salary reports shared on Glassdoor over the past 12 months show that Google ranks highest among 15 tech companies in the US for the average salary paid out to software engineers.
