Great news for Cork and Munster today with the announcement of an IDA backed investment by Pfizer. Read more about this jobs news.
IBM has announced that it is setting up a cloud computing centre in Dublin. This is the first of its kind in Europe and the project will be supported by the IDA. This development will create about 21 new jobs. Nine of these will be research based. OK – it is not many jobs but they are high-end jobs. Its quality and not quantity – that is what the government will say.
The new Dublin-based site will act as the European hub and it will provide research and other services to future facilities across EMEA. The site will also train lecturers at the DIT’s School of Computing in the area of cloud computing.
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment – Micheal Martin made the announcement and said that the decision to locate in Ireland highlighted the importance of Ireland in IBM’s global R&D.
Keep your eyes peeled for these jobs over the coming months and for the active readers why not call IBM to find out exactly when these jobs will be coming on stream.
Good News for the Dublin today as ServiceSource announced the creation of 100 Multi-Lingual sales jobs in Cherrywood. ServiceSource is based in San Fran and established its EMEA offices in Dublin 2005. The company currently employs 175 staff in Ireland.
There was also good news for Belfast where Fidessa announce that it would be setting up a Development Center. This will mean the creation of 26 high skilled software programming jobs. Hey are these not the type of jobs the Government and IDA have promised us!! Apparantly we were considered but the availability of Engineers in Belfast swung it – hmmmm!!
Careers and Jobs will increase by 180,000 in Northern Ireland if plans go ahead to reduce corporation tax rate to 12.5% (similar to the Republic). Not only are we shopping in Newry and Belfast but according to some analysts we could soon be working there too. Will Inward Foreign Investment into the North compliment the South or cause further pain and job losses? Will job announcement like this week in Tralee soon be a rare event? Many would argue that they already are. Businessmen, politicians, IDA and Sir Anthony O’Reilly think it will be a benefit for the whole Island.
Careers in Northern Ireland.
So what would be the benefits for jobseekers working in the North. I will list some that spring to mind but feel free to add to the post.
1. Beef Sausages
2. Better roads
3. Potato bread and Soda’s
4. Better work life balance – No more M50 or Mad Cow Roundabout
5. Tennent’s and Harp (only joking)
6. IKEA
