Careers and Jobs

Satellite Broadband Ireland Jobs

Satellite Broadband Ireland will create 30 new jobs as a result of a contract from mobile group 3 Ireland. Satellite Broadband Ireland is based in Mullingar and was established in 2008. The company currently employs 10 people at its headquarters in Mullingar.

Facebook Jobs

FACEBOOK announced that it would create 70 new jobs in Ireland next year as it expanded its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new roles will be across sales, engineering and finance.

Irish Recruitment Social Networking site – Jobs Market, enables job seekers to publish their profile, and CV to all the Irish Employers. There is also a blogging facility to enable job seekers to market themselves, publish their achievements and attract employers. Employers can connect with the candidates they are interested in, and interact directly. The whole site is 100% free to use for both job seekers and employers.

Intel, Smart Telecom, Facebook & Telcorp – Weekly Jobs Update in Ireland

SMART TELECOM confirmed this week that they were considering job cuts. Word from the company indicated that there could be up to 30 or 40 positions at risk from the 90 strong workforce.

INTEL announced that it is seeking 300 job cuts at its plant in Leixlip, County Kildare. It seemed like Ireland had missed out on global restructuring with 6,000 jobs cut across plants globally. This news is worrying for workers at the plant even though the company has stressed that the plant has a strong role to play in future.

FACEBOOK will create 40 new jobs in Dublin. We brought you news of this earlier in the year. Although the new jobs numbers created is small it does sent a message that Ireland can still attract big name employers due to its strategic geographical position and skilled workforce.

Mobile services firm TELCORP announced it is going to create 20 new jobs in Dublin. Telcorp was founded in mid 2008. The company is hiring mobile sales and service staff for its office in Sandyford where it currently employs five staff and provides a range of services from mobile handsets to fixed line solutions to IT services.

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.

Well Bill Gates is no longer No1 richest man on the planet. He has been overtaken by Warren Buffet. Below are some of the findings by Forbes List of the world’s top billionaires. These guys have more money than some small countries.

1. $62bn Warren Buffet – American Investor
2. $60bn Carlos Slim Helum – Mexican Telecoms Guru
3. $58bn Bill Gates – Microsoft.

Six Irish made the list. Leading the list was Sean Quinn with $6bn and others include Denis O’Brien, Dermot Desmond, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, John Dorrance and Mr Mistrum. I guess the Celtic Tiger has been good to the Irish after all.

The youngest pretender of the list is of course – Mr Facebook.

I wrote recently about Facebook and how networking sites can wreck your career and job prospects BUT I did not mention TAX. Recent reports have Revenue Inspectors admitting to trawling networking sites for information on taxpayers. Revenue say that this is not a policy change and indicate that they will use whatever public information is available to provide information before an audit.

What information could they use?

If anyone has any ideas please post a comment.

I was thinking perhaps work history data or if individuals post information on properties of investments etc.

I posted previously about “net reputation” and how it can have a positive BUT also negative impact on your career. Sites such as Bebo, Facebook and MySpace can bring your career to a halt as many employers now use these as a valuable source of information on potential employees. There is a new networking site that you do not want your details on – JuicyCampus. This will be a real career stopper.

Recruiters are making much noise about the fact that the internet is now a key tool they use to check out potential hires. I take this with a pinch of salt as I know many agencies and companies recruit staff. Most don’t even check qualifications or references so why the sudden uptake in candidate checking online.

Having said all this it might be worthwhile to Google your name a see what search information actually appears. Research has indicated that 62% of British executives were signed up to Facebook so Ireland must have a similar percentage. This would mean that there is a lot of personal stuff up on the net. This would also mean that many of those actually hiring would have a profile so jobseekers can actually check out a potential boss.

Will networking sites impact your career prospects? – the jury is still out. Anyway I don’t use them so I am alright Jack.

Rather than focusing on how internet usage might affect future jobs I think employees should focus on how internet misuse can cost immediate jobs. FACT: Internet misuse during work hours can cost you your job. There are many high profile examples such as the senior executive in a leading Irish bank who lost his job as a result of researching night time activities for a trip to Vegas on a work pc.

The moral of the story is keep social networking but not during work hours.

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