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Career memes of the week: project manager News
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... -
8 out of 10 companies on happiest young professionals list have Irish operations News
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... -
Free TechElevate programme launches to help job-seekers break into IT News
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... -
End users do the strangest things, IT admin stress survey reveals News
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... -
Women see work-life balance more important to success than money (infographic) News
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...Categories: In the Workplace, Careers and Employment -
Career memes of the week: technical support News
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... -
Yahoo! stands by its no-working-from-home rule News
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 News
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!...Categories: Mobility, Management, Leadership & Management, Internet, In the Workplace, Communications -
Weekend news round-up: Google expansion, no more remote working at Yahoo!, Pope to leave Twitter News
25.02.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech news from the weekend, Google plans to expand its HQ, Yahoo!'s CEO puts the kibosh on remote working, and will the Pope shut down his... -
Google ranks as best place for interns - Glassdoor News
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... -
IT and PM pros saw slowdown to pay cuts in 2012 but overtime lengthens News
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... -
Google tops 2013 Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list News
18.01.2013 Internet search giant Google has ranked as the best company for which to work in the 2013 Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking. -
Learning new skills is most professionals’ goal for 2013 - LinkedIn News
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... -
Dell SecureWorks reveals new cloud security service News
07.01.2013 Dell SecureWorks has revealed a new vulnerability management service and a new web application scanning service for the cloud and virtualised computing environments. -
The hot high-earning IT and design jobs of 2013 - reports News
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... -
Physics businesses bring €7bn to Irish economy annually, says IOP News
30.11.2012 Physics-based businesses contribute more than €7bn annually to the Irish economy and directly employ more than 86,000 people. That’s according to a new report from the Institute... -
SFI’s director-general Prof Mark Ferguson talks science and Ireland (video) News
26.11.2012 To coincide with our countdown of the top science and innovation stories of 2012, we talk to Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) director-general Prof Mark Ferguson, who gives an... -
Intel awards five Women in Technology scholars at Leixlip campus News
21.11.2012 Intel has awarded five third-level students with scholarships as part of its 2012 Women in Technology programme that aims to encourage women to pursue careers in science and... -
SAS, Google named world's best companies to work for News
14.11.2012 Internet search giant Google and software company SAS are the world’s best companies in which to be employed, CNNMoney’s ranking ‘25 Best Global Companies to Work For’ reveals. -
Email: friend or foe? (Infographic) News
31.10.2012 There is no question email has helped workers become more productive and efficient, and mobile technology has enabled workers to take their inboxes with them wherever they go....