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Hewlett Packard has announced that it will create 500 Irish jobs over the next 12 months with a EUR18m expansion. These jobs will add to the 4000 employees based in Leixlip. The company will be recruiting 300 jobs immediately targeting high end graduates. The IDA is backing this project which brings about the one of the largest job announcements this year.

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Sun Microsystems announced on Friday that it will be cutting between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs globally which represents about 15% of its workforce. High loss has put the company under pressure to take these drastic changes. It is estimated that these job cuts would save the company about USD800m annually.

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As many as 250 new jobs will be created in Athlone following news that US Medical Technology company ABIOMED will set up operations in the town. ABIOMED is a high-tech manufacturer of cardiac technology and they specialise in “fixing broken hearts”.

This Irish facility will manufacture a new range of cardiac products for the US market. The jobs created will be high skilled jobs which is great news for the region.

Athlone and Westmeath has had mixed job news in recent times. There have been some new job creations but as much job loss. ABIOMED will actually locate its premises in a plant that was used by Conor Medsystems which closed at a cost of 170 jobs last year.

This is great news for Ireland during what can be described as quite depressing times as far as jobs and the economy are concerned. Ireland has secured a high class company amid stiff competition from other countries.

Siemens has announced that it will be cutting 7000 jobs across the globe as it transitions as a company from hardware provider to a software/solutions provider.

There is good news for Irish worker as their jobs will be safe. Siemens employs about 1100 staff across 3 locations in Ireland Dublin, Belfast and Cork. The majority of these workers are employed in Dublin.

Siemens businesses that are represented in Ireland include; Siemens Limited, Siemens Business Services, Siemens Research Ireland, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Osram.

Siemens reported revenue figures of 72.4 billion euro in 2007. They employ a total of 460,000 staff in 190 countries around the world. Last time I looked share prices had increased in the company.

Key events this week for Jobseekers

FAS Opportunities 2008 in Croke Park.