http://www.eirjobs.com/news Irish Jobs : EirJobs.com provides a news service about the jobs market in Ireland. We deliver bulletins about jobs, tax, and other Irish topics. Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Origina, an IT services and and consulting firm have plans to add up to 60 new jobs in the next two years. This will bring the numbers who work for Origina to 120. The €3million investment is to help to bring the company to be a competitor to the traditional ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/new-origina-jobs-for-dublin/ Medtronic (www.medtronic.com) have annoucned plans for wordwide cuts in their staffing. Up to 1,100 jobs worldwide are expected to go, which is almost 3% of it's workforce. Thankfully this comes with a good note for Jobs in Galway , as Medtronic are moving their endovascular manufacturing operation from Santa Rosa, ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/medtronic-move-to-galway/ The DETE (Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment , www.entemp.ie) has published some frightening figures on Irish redundancy rates. Year on year the number of reported redundancies in April rose by 47% between 2007 and 2008. The majority of these job losses were in the construction and manufacturing sectors, making ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/almost-50-more-redundancies/ A crazy news story from Italy today, apparently yesterday there was an official website publishing all the salary declarations and tax contributions for everyone in Italy. The tax authority's website was overload by zealous Italians wondering how much their neighbours to big soccer stars earn. The website was suspended within 24 ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/italy-publishes-everyones-salary-and-returns/ Yesterday DELL (www.dell.com) announced that they will be cutting 250 Irish jobs from the plants in Dublin and Limerick. Overall the company employs 4,500 people in Ireland and this figure reflects just over 5% of their Irish staff numbers. Areas of DELL effected include sales/marketing/finance/tech support as well as other ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/dell-job-losses-dublin-limerick/ Here are some of the top news stories hitting the papers over the last few days: Good news comes for Xilinx (www.xilinx.com) who say that they are increasing their customer support division in Dublin. It should result in about 20 new jobs for the site. Their Dublin site is ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/weekend-jobs-update-april-2008/ Last year we mentioned that Genzyme in Waterford had plans on expansion. Genzyme (www.genzyme.com) employs around 10,000 people in the United States alone. They are a Massachusetts based company, based out of Cambridge near Boston. Producing drugs since 1981 to fight rare genetic disorders, kidney disease and cancer. It now ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/genzyme-waterford-pharmacutical-jobs/ Ryanair has announced that they will be cutting up to 40 jobs in their Dublin offices next month. These jobs are in the Telesales area. The Low Cost Airline reported that only 1% of their bookings were now done online and it no longer made sense to keep their ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/ryanair-cutting-jobs-in-dublin/ Today has been a great day for Galway, today there has been two separate announcements about new jobs in Galway. Green Isle Foogs Ltd. are going to invest over €5 million in Portumna, Co. Galway. They will create up to 70 new jobs with the help of Enterprise Ireland. It ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/90-new-jobs-in-galway/ Last week there was a security at Ireland's Largest online recruiter. Jobs.ie reported that last Thursday, March 27th, there was a security breech of their website and a number of CVs were stolen. Obviously these CVs contained a number of personal details and in the wrong hands these details could ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/jobsie-security-breech/ More good news for Ireland and the digital media industry, the American company EyeWonder (www.eyewonder.com) is to relocate it's European offices to Dublin. EyeWonder said that the availability of highly skilled graduates and workforce was the main factor for moving to Ireland. Other similar companies like Blizzard have chosen ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/eyewonder-to-move-to-dublin/ There is a new project we've been working on in the last few days/weeks, it's called Jobs In Ireland . ORG, and aims to be a free platform to advertise Irish Jobs. In the past two weeks there have already been 50 jobs posted from various recruiters. Jobs in Ireland ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/advertise-jobs-for-free/ Hi, my name is Ralph Depping and I'm a programmer with S3, last year I wrote a blog post with some tips for people going for Tech Interviews. I've found myself in a few, and I thought I would share the tips. Maybe you can check my blog EmbeddedInCork.net ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/tech-interview-top-tips/ It's been a while since we've had some holidays, so this week are off to the sun. While we are away in sunny Florida, I have am bringing you some guest posts from other authors. So sit back an enjoy what we bring to you this week ! Tomorrow we ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/automagic-job-articles/ There is unlimited information about how to get a job but very little on how to leave a job. Most people think it is easy to leave a job but anyone who has navigated this route will understand that it does not always go to plan. Parting company can be ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/career-coaching-leaving-a-job/ It's Saturday and we are wondering what interesting jobs are out there, and here is one we came across Manchester City Council is currently looking to recruit a Teenage Pregnancy Implementation Manager , this came via the Guardian Jobs Site. Job: Teenage Pregnancy Implementation Manager Employer:MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL Posted:19 Feb 2008 ... http://www.eirjobs.com/news/teenage-pregnancy-implementation-manager/