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  • Career memes of the week: intern

    Career memes of the week: intern

    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.

  • ManpowerGroup advocates for female execs as 35pc of employers struggle to fill jobs

    ManpowerGroup advocates for female execs as 35pc of employers struggle to fill jobs

    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.

  • Career memes of the week: project manager

    Career memes of the week: project manager

    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.

  •  8 out of 10 companies on happiest young professionals list have Irish operations

    8 out of 10 companies on happiest young professionals list have Irish operations

    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.

  • Free TechElevate programme launches to help job-seekers break into IT

    Free TechElevate programme launches to help job-seekers break into IT

    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.

  • End users do the strangest things, IT admin stress survey reveals

    End users do the strangest things, IT admin stress survey reveals

    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.

  • Career memes of the week: technical support

    Career memes of the week: technical support

    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.

  • Women see work-life balance more important to success than money (infographic)

    Women see work-life balance more important to success than money (infographic)

    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.

  • Yahoo! stands by its no-working-from-home rule

    Yahoo! stands by its no-working-from-home rule

    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.

  • Compromise would soften Yahoo!’s ban on working from home

    Compromise would soften Yahoo!’s ban on working from home

    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.