Tagged: Graduates & News
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Colleges need to produce more big data graduates to fill future jobs, EMC says News
16.05.2013 Multinational IT firm EMC, which recently partnered with University College Cork (UCC) on two data-focused business courses, believes that more interdisciplinary big data... -
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... -
Engineers Week: memes pay (tongue in cheek) tribute to engineers News
26.02.2013 It’s Engineers Week in Ireland, seven days of nationwide events that celebrate and raise awareness of the world of engineering in the country. Engineers Week couldn’t be more... -
Radical shake-up of work permits scheme to attract skilled overseas workers News
22.02.2013 The Irish Government is to shake up the work permit processing system in a bid to attract overseas workers to fill skill gaps in crucial areas like ICT and engineering. The move...Categories: Upskilling, Science, Sales, Legal, Leadership & Management, Graduate, Government, Education, Economy, Digital Business, CIO, Careers and Employment -
Disruptive digital economy measures dominate Ireland’s Action Plan for 100,000 new jobs News
22.02.2013 As part of a plan to generate 100,000 new jobs by 2016, Ireland will lead Europe in terms of ICT graduates as a percentage of all third-level graduates by 2018 and 2,000 extra...Categories: Unified Communications, Training, Tax, R&D, Investments, Internet, Green Tech, Green, Financial Services, Financial, Engineering, Energy, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre -
UL to offer 100 free places on software development and cloud computing courses News
13.02.2013 University of Limerick (UL) has received funding to offer 100 free places on two of its full-time diploma courses covering cloud computing and software development. The... -
UCC student creates graduate careers smartphone app News
07.02.2013 A final-year business information systems student at UCC has developed a smartphone app called Graduate Jobs Ireland aimed at keeping graduates and undergraduates up to date on... -
Education Minister announces 760 ICT graduate skills conversion places News
01.02.2013 Some 760 new college places in ICT graduate skills conversion courses have been announced by Ireland’s Education Minister Ruairí Quinn, TD. -
40 software graduates a year to boost local medical devices industry News
30.01.2013 A new skills pipeline of up to 40 new medical software graduates a year has been established to support the booming medical-devices sector in Ireland, following research by... -
Hidden jobs opportunity: no recession online, but can firms sell digitally? News
02.01.2013 At the end of December, The Digital Hub in Dublin opined that Ireland is coming of age digitally. I agree with this to an extent – Irish consumers are coming of age digitally....Tags: Digital Hub, Apple, Intel, Google, Facebook, E-commerce, Digital Economy, Graduates, Job Creation -
NYSE Euronext recruiting for 20 graduate positions at Belfast hub News
29.11.2012 NYSE Euronext, a global operator of financial markets, is recruiting for 20 graduate positions at its Belfast subsidiary. The financial technology company, which operates the... -
€1m IBEC and Ericsson conversion programme guarantees jobs for 40 graduates News
29.11.2012 Forty graduates have been guaranteed jobs for two years at Ericsson after completing a conversion course that gave them skills to be relevant in the tech sector. Around 100 more...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Engineering, Education, Economy, Digital Business -
New BSc at GMIT aims to address ICT industry skills gap News
29.11.2012 A new BSc honours degree programme launched by the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) hopes to produce graduates that will continue on to careers in digital employment... -
Students graduate from DCU programme to address Ireland’s ICT gap News
07.11.2012 A new undergraduate programme set up at Dublin City University’s (DCU) School of Computing in 2008 to help tackle the skills gap in the ICT sector has produced its first set of... -
UL hosts its largest annual Careers Fair with 500 jobs on offer News
11.10.2012 More than 3,000 students from University of Limerick (UL) attended their college’s annual Careers Fair today, where 500 jobs were on offer from 124 companies.Categories: Recruitment, Careers and Employment -
UL records increasing graduate employment rates despite jobs downturn News
28.08.2012 A survey of University of Limerick’s 2011 graduates shows that 88pc are either employed or pursuing further study. The university’s doctorate students are also in demand, with...Categories: Education -
Taoiseach announces 200 jobs for Galway from Merit Medical News
17.05.2012 Two hundred jobs will be created over the next five years at a €20m Merit Medical Systems facility in Galway, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD, announced this morning. -
Ireland’s 2020 workplace and new IT demands – Cisco head News
22.03.2012 With one in three students and young professionals apparently now viewing the internet as being as vital as air, water and food, Cisco’s country manager for Ireland Adam Grennan... -
Lack of experienced Irish graduates to fill IT jobs, recruitment firm says News
22.03.2012 While the IT industry is thriving in spite of the recession, a lack of experienced Irish graduates has forced recruitment company Software Placements to look to Europe to fill... -
78pc of engineers confident about company prospects - survey News
02.03.2012 Seventy-eight per cent of engineers are confident about their organisation’s prospects this year, a survey from Engineers Ireland as part of Engineers Week 2012 suggests.