Tagged: Training & News
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FIT’s ICT Skills Audit pinpoints skills needed to fill more than 4,500 tech jobs News
23.05.2013 Following a survey of 38 major multinationals and SMEs employing more than 25,000 people in the IT sector in Ireland, Fastrack to IT (FIT) has today launched its ICT Skills...Tags: Digital Media, Virtualisation, Cloud, Project Management, Developers, Recruitment, Jobs, Training, ICT, Skills -
New ECDL programme launched in London News
16.05.2013 The annual forum of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) Foundation in London marked the launch today of a revised ECDL programme to offer a wider range of models and,... -
I.T. Alliance to cloud-enable HP’s LIFE skills endeavour News
01.05.2013 Technology giant HP has selected an Irish company, I.T. Alliance, to bring its US$20m HP LIFE programme, which has trained 2m students worldwide, into the cloud. -
Career memes of the week: astronaut News
23.04.2013 What do a sloth, hamster and the TV programme The Big Bang Theory have in common? They all turn the spotlight on astronauts, the profession in this week’s career memes of the... -
Ireland plans to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016 News
22.04.2013 The Irish Government has published plans devised by Forfás and the Expert Group on Future Skills to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016. -
Digital Marketing Institute launches 180-day course to fast-track students into jobs News
15.04.2013 In response to the digital skills shortage in Ireland, the Dublin-based Digital Marketing Institute has devised a new course that will prepare graduates and professionals for... -
Getting over the language barrier: how Irish job seekers can improve their career options News
12.04.2013 Ireland has become a base for a number of global tech companies, including major multinationals like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and PayPal. This booming technology... -
Novartis to establish business services centre in Dublin, creating about 100 jobs News
08.04.2013 Novartis, the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical company, is set to grow its presence in Ireland with a new regional business services centre in Dublin, creating about 100... -
Tech start-up of the week: The Analytics Store News
07.04.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is The Analytics Store, a boutique consultancy and training company set up by computer scientist Aoife D’Arcy to help companies and organisations... -
Start-up sales booster Selr8r now seeking applicants for second round News
04.04.2013 Having just successfully completed its first outing, Selr8r, a unique mentor-driven sales accelerator programme, is ready for a second run at boosting selected start-ups’ sales. -
Netwatch establishes salaried graduate sales training programme News
27.03.2013 Realising that Irish third-level institutions are not providing graduates with sufficient sales training, visual surveillance provider Netwatch has decided to develop its own... -
Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs aims to fill 900,000 predicted European ICT vacancies News
04.03.2013 With 900,000 ICT vacancies predicted for the EU in 2015, a Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs has been established to fill these positions through improved training initiatives... -
Microsoft invests €6m in plan to change future of 30,000 Irish youth News
21.02.2013 Software giant Microsoft is to invest €6m to empower 30,000 youth to change their futures over the next three years through education initiatives, software donations to... -
City and Guilds and ICBE offer free training for job-seekers News
19.02.2013 Two new targeted training programmes for job-seekers in Ireland will be delivered free of charge by the Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE) in conjunction with City and...Categories: Upskilling, Training -
More high tech employers added to Career Zoo line-up this Saturday News
07.02.2013 Registrations are ramping up for the Career Zoo jobs exhibition on Saturday in Dublin’s Convention Centre, in what the organisers say will be the biggest to date. Big names like... -
Skillnets opens new €500k training fund for Ireland’s private sector News
28.01.2013 Ireland's State-funded training and upskilling body Skillnets is launching a new €500,000 training fund specifically aimed at companies in the private sector. Groups of... -
Employers part of solution to any IT skills gap, says Accenture News
23.01.2013 New research published by Accenture confirms that many employers are experiencing a lack of access to appropriately skilled workers, paticularly in the areas of technology and... -
Digital Marketing Institute signs €2m training deal in Malaysia News
17.01.2013 In the latest in a series of export deals that brings the tally of potential revenues to more than €7m so far, the Dublin-headquartered Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) has...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Social Media, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Deals Done -
FÁS backs new games courses for those on Live Register News
19.12.2012 The world famous Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin is to be the scene for a new initiative supported by FÁS that will train unemployed people to give them the skills to find... -
Interview: Conor Lynch of BOSS Metrics on helping firms embrace social media (video) News
19.10.2012 Siliconrepublic.com caught up with social media entrepreneur Conor Lynch at the Dublin Web Summit, where he filled us in on his plan to make all businesses experts at social...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Social Media, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital MarketingTags: Foursquare, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Marketing, Training, Enterprise Ireland, Social Media