Careers and Jobs

PayPal will create 35 highly-skilled jobs in Dublin. The online payments services provider is investing more than EUR15 million in its centre in Blanchardstown, where it currently employs around 900 staff. The investment comes following support from IDA Ireland under its Research, Development and Innovation programme.

IBM is to cut around 5,000 of its US staff with many jobs transferred to India.

Internet giant Google has disclosed it is cutting nearly 200 sales and marketing staff. The layoffs are the biggest in the company’s history outside of a merger restructuring.

Amazon.com is closing down distribution centres in three US states and will transfer or lay off around 210 staff.

There has been negative jobs news for two counties in Ireland – Donegal & Dublin due to announcement by two major employers IBM & Boston Scientific.

IBM is seeking 120 voluntary redundancies at its plant in Mulhuddart as it moves the manufacturing of high-end computer servers to a base in Singapore. Those workers taking redundancy option are expected to leave by the end of April. This news continues the trend of manufacturing moving from Ireland to cheaper cost base countries.

Boston Scientific has dealt a blow to Donegal. The company plans to move the manufacturing facility from Letterkenny to Galway. The plant employs 120 staff in Donegal and according to the company some of these workers can move to Galway plant.

IT services and consulting company – Origina will create 60 new jobs over the next 2 years in Dublin as part of a EUR3m investment. The jobs will be created at Sandyford Industrial Estate.

Origina is focusing on hiring various technical staff and IT consultants for the expansion. The majority of these staff will be based in Sandyford Industrial Estate and will increase the total staff employed by the company to 120.
The company was established in 1998 to manage data storage requirements for large Irish companies. Origina changed its name so that Irish and UK offices can compete across Europe under one brand name. The company intends to invest heavily building this brand.

Origina’s customers include the Department of Education & Science, Friends First and Eagle Star. Origina won the prize for IT Project of the Year (Public Sector) for its work with the Department of Education and Science at the 2008 ICT Awards. Origina worked with the department to build a large pay-roll and pension database for teachers in Ireland.

Are you looking for Languages jobs or Multi-Lingual jobs in Ireland?

The Language Recruitment Fair – You cannot miss this opportunity!!

This is largest language and multi-lingual exhibition of its kind ever to be held in Ireland. 2007 saw a wide variety of employers and 3000 multi-lingual professionals attend the event.

The Language Recruitment Fair will be held at the Gresham Hotel on 4th & 5th of April BUT if you cannot attend this one there will be an additional Language Recruitment Fair on 11th & 12th September.

This fair will provide the opportunity to meet many different companies under one roof. The event will focus on positions across IT, Sales, Finance, Translation, Marketing, Administration, Customer Service and much more.

There are a wide variety of companies attending including:

Accenture
Alienware
Canada Life
Cook
Cpl
EMC
Gem
IBM
Manpower
Sportingbet
VMware

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