04.06.2013 Internships may well be a rite of passage for many employees, at worst requiring slogging away for little or no pay, and at best being opportunities interns can take advantage of to gain skills and experience in a particular field.
29.05.2013 The latest Talent Shortage Survey from ManpowerGroup reveals the top 10 jobs employers worldwide are struggling to fill as the global skills gap reaches its highest level in six years. To address this, the global HR consulting firm makes a number of recommendations, which include urging firms to seek out talented women for high-level positions, or risk facing stiff competition from them in future.
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.
10.05.2013 Young employees are likely to be happiest at technology companies, with data storage firm EMC leading the pack, CareerBliss.com’s compilation suggests, and eight of those 10 companies have operations in Ireland.
16.04.2013 The Dublin-based Digital Skills Academy is launching a free programme called TechElevate to help graduate job-seekers of ICT and computing courses upskill in order to work in areas such as web development and IT technical project management.
27.03.2013 An end user folding up 5.25-inch floppy disc in order to fit it into a 3.5-inch disc drive is only one of the most ridiculous things IT administrators have ever seen end users do, GFI Software’s second annual IT Admin Stress Survey says.
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.
05.03.2013 Research from Accenture released ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March) reveals what professional Irish women want to feel successful at work. Greater work-life balance takes the lead over financial gains, with many people (men and women) turning down roles when this could be negatively impacted.
27.02.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has issued a curt response to criticism about its decision to ban telecommuting, saying the new rule is about what’s right for the company.
26.02.2013 Employees of internet giant Yahoo! received a memo last week telling them that come 1 June, there would be no more working from home – a confusing order, considering what Yahoo! had outlined and demonstrated previously.
