Careers and Jobs

Below is a summary of some recent jobs announcements across the country including Dublin and Cork regions. In total 700 new jobs were announced by 5 leading companies. Read more about new jobs in Cork, Newry, Dublin and nationwide.

SuccessFactors to create 40 new jobs in Dublin

A global provider of talent management software will establish its European Multilingual Business Centre in Dublin creating 40 high-value jobs in Ireland. The new centre will be located in Dundrum and will service customers in the small and medium-size markets.

Teleperformance to create 240 jobs in Dublin & Newry

French-owned call centre operator Teleperformance will create 240 jobs in Dublin & Newry to support grocery chain Sainsbury’s customer services. Earlier this year the company announced it was created 610 jobs at its customer contact centres in Newry and Bangor.

Olive Safety to create 100 new jobs in Cork

A Cork H&S firm plans to create 100 jobs over the next year, while 20 further posts will be created at a manufacturing company in Dublin. The company will initially employ 20 staff, growing to 100 over the next 12 months.

America Pacific Corporation (AMPAC-ISP Group) to create 20 new jobs in Dublin

America Pacific Corporation (AMPAC-ISP Group) to create 20 new jobs in Dublin over the next five years in Dublin following the decision to set up its European HQ in the city. AMPAC-ISP is one of Europe’s leading companies in the design and manufacture of mission-critical structural components for the European space industry.

Bord Na Móna is to create 300 jobs nationwide

This news comes of the back of a major new investment in green energy. The jobs will be created in a range of areas in projects such as environmental solution, waste recovery and recycling and new investment in wind and gas power stations.

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Been travelling with work for the last 4 weeks so no real time to post – there has been alot more water under the Jobs & Careers bridge since then. BUT lets kick off with some positive jobs news stories.

Softedge Systems creates 15 new jobs in Newry

Software company SOTFEDGE will establish a new centre of excellence in Newry, Co. Down. This Stg700k will create 15 new jobs over the next 3 years and is backed by Invest Northern Ireland. The centre will focus initially on developing software using Silverlight, which enables streaming of high quality video, animation and interactive features online.

Cerner Corporation to create 40 new jobs in Dublin

It was recently announced that Cerner Corporation will expand its operations in the Dublin headquarters. The healthcare technology firm will create up to 40 new jobs as the firm adds a software technical support service. Cerner provides technology to health systems, pharmaceutical industry and doctors

VoiceSage to create 25 new jobs in Dublin

VoiceSage will create 25 jobs at newly opened offices in Dun Laoghaire. This development is part of a EUR7 million investment by the messaging technology firm. The jobs will be in software engineering, research and development and customer support.

The papers yesterday announced negative jobs news for north and south. Glanbia announced that it will be cutting 50 jobs at HQ in West Dublin. Meanwhile in Belfast 40 Jobs will be cut by financial company ClearCo. These lastest announcements come at the end of a grey week for jobs news. Although the previous post announce 190 new jobs for Newry & Belfast with First Derivatives & ICS Computing many jobs were lost. Here is a quick summary below.

GE Healthcare announced 50 job cuts in Cork.

Powerscreen announced 90 job cuts in Tyrone

County Council announced 48 redundancies in Kildare.

Microsoft announced 17 job cuts in Dublin

Finally the biggest news of the week was that Ulster Bank announce 750 job cuts across Ireland. There will be 200 cut in Northern Ireland and 550 across the south.

Financial IT company First Derivatives will create 140 jobs in Newry where they already employ 130 staff. The company indicated that most of the jobs will be filled by locals (what about all the southern shoppers). The majority of the new jobs are consultancy with some management. First Derivatives provides consultancy and software services for financial institutions who want to analyse their exposure to debt.

Service & IT Software company ICS Computing will create 50 new jobs in Belfast at its headquarters. The new job creation is as a result of a new contract with NHS. ICS currently employs over 250 people at its Belfast office.

Other news impacting the north was that ASDA will create 7,000 new jobs which will surely mean more employed in Northern Ireland.

Looks like the Northies are robbing our jobs again.

Kingspan has announced that it has created 40 new jobs in Newry as a result of a 6m euro investment by the groups Environmental & Renewables subsidiary.

Looks like it is all positive news for Newry at the minute. Newry has City status, Sainsbury’s (cheap shopping), 40 new jobs and even David McWilliams is writing about the town (I mean City) in today’s Independent.

What does the south get?

We get an announcement that NEW start up companies will create 800 new jobs over the next 3 years. This is on top of the 600 created by these companies so far. There are two ways you can look at this announcement.

Negative: Micheal Martin has nothing else positive to say and need some spin to deflect all the negative job loss announcements. I mean come on!! This would not have even made the papers two years ago.

Positive: This is great news for the Economy as we are breaking from the reliance of US multinationals. They created the Celtic Tiger and now these budding entrepreneurs are creating the Eccentric Tiger. Hey got to get a new name in before McWilliams does. Anyway don’t they always say that entrepreneurs are a bit different?

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