Careers and Jobs

Online auction site eBay has announced that it will cut about 1,000 jobs globally which represents 10 percent of its global workforce. On a positive note a spokesman for the company indicated that the impact on Irish employees would be minimal and estimated that only about 10 people in total would be directly affected. Ebay is established in Ireland since 2003 and employs 1,600 staff in Ireland at offices in Blanchardstown. Staff were informed by email and then by management about the developments

So we still are attractive to Inward Foreign Investment!!

Social networking website Facebook announced that it will to create 70 new jobs with its decision to establish its international headquarters in the city of Dublin. I guess the guys from Ebay and Google have told them about the Guinness and the nightlife.

The headquarters will have a wide range of roles – online technical, operations and sales to support users in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Facebook if you have not heard of it is quite a big hit at the minute and has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. There will be a big demand for these roles so get ahead of the game.

If you are looking for a job in Ireland then STOP!!

This article may help you land a great place to work. You may or may not have received your supplement on the top 50 companies to work for in Ireland. Why not try to get a job with one of these companies FIRST. The staff certainly thinks they are good employers or have been forced/bribed to do so.

The overall winner was Airtricity and the other companies in alphabetical order are:

Abbott Laboratories Ireland Ltd, Accenture, AOL Europe Operations Ltd, AXA Insurance Ltd, BDO Simpson Xavier, Brightwater, BUPA Ireland, CB Richard Ellis Ireland, Children’s University Hospital Temple Street, Clontarf Castle Hotel, CPL Resources, Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel, Deloitte, Diageo Ireland, eBay, Euro Car Parks, FedEx Express, GE Commercial Aviation Services, GlaxoSmithKline Ireland, Globoforce, Google Ireland Ltd, GTECH Ireland Operations Ltd, Halifax Insurance Ireland Ltd, Hibernian Group, Hooke & MacDonald, Irish Life Corporate Business, Irish Stock Exchange, KPMG, Man Investments, Marathon Oil Ireland Ltd, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, McDonald’s, Mellon Ireland, Microsoft Ireland, O’Mahony Pike Architects, PEI, Philips Electronics Ireland, PM Group, Pramerica Systems Ireland, Premier Group, Public Appointments Service, Quintiles and Innovex, Radisson SAS Hotel & Resorts, RCI, SAP SSC (Ireland) Ltd, Sherry Fitzgerald Group, Sigmar Recruitment, Tourism Ireland Ltd, Unicare Pharmacy Ltd