Careers and Jobs

Business Objects will create 100 new jobs in Dublin as a result of a EUR29m investment. Business Objects will establish a R&D center in Citywest in Dublin. SAP bought Business Objects in January of this year so new jobs will be located at SAP’s facility in West Dublin.

These high value positions will be created over the next 4 years he next four years and they will be focus on new generation of performance optimisation applications. Jobs created will be for graduates and experienced IT professionals. IT roles will include IT architects, Software testers and programmers. There will also be a recruitment drive for engineers with Java, Eclipse, XML languages.

Business Objects & SAP currently employ over 1000 staff in Dublin & Galway. Business Objects set up in Dublin in 2004 and employs 200 of the 1000 staff.
This is some positive news for the government as these are they type of high-end jobs they have promised to deliver.

Interview Coaching, Career Coaching, CV Writing

If you are job hunting keep next weekend free as there is a huge recruitment fair being held in Croke Park. FAS Opportunities Fair 2008 will commence on Friday 29th February and run through to Monday 3rd March. It is FREE to attend so there are no excuses folks!!

These recruitment fairs can be hit or miss BUT FAS seem to being going all out to make this a success. They have attracted some big names like Bank of New York, MBNA, Allianz, Quinn Direct, SAP, Dublin Bus, Tesco and Canon.
A huge marketing campaign has just commenced so you will probably hear more over the coming weeks. The fair opens all days at 10.00 am so get down early to beat the rush. FAS expect 100,000 to attend over the weekend.