Tag: Project Manager

How to disguise desperation in your CV

If you’re looking for a job and you can’t find one, you may be feeling a little concerned – especially if you’ve been looking unsuccessfully for some time. If this concern leaks into your CV, it will prove counterproductive: no one wants to hire someone who smells of desperation, no matter how faint the odour. [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 8 November 2011 • 11 comments

Ireland’s financial sector is facing a shortage of technologists

In contrast with most other sectors in Ireland, if you work in technology you’re likely to have no shortage of new job options available to you. Ireland’s growing reputation as a centre for research and development means that announcements from IT companies expanding are appearing on a near weekly basis. In the last couple of [...]

By Paul Clarke, 2 August 2011 • 1 comment

Why Scotland, Ireland…and Bournemouth are increasingly desirable locations for financial technologists

With more financial services firms ‘nearshoring’ IT functions, the prospect of a move to Ireland, Scotland or even Bournemouth for technologists seems like an increasingly attractive option. Fidelity Investments has just unveiled plans to create 100 tech jobs in its Dublin and Galway offices – entry to management level positions for Java, .Net and database [...]

By Paul Clarke, 17 February 2011 • 0 comments

Financial services firms in Ireland want techies too

While IDA Ireland has been encouraging a raft of technology companies to either set up shop here or expand their presence, the financial sector has largely been excluded from this recruitment frenzy. Now, however, a number of firms are kick-starting new projects which is creating job opportunities. The likes of IBM, LinkedIn, Citrix, Lumension, RiotGames, [...]

By Paul Clarke, 27 July 2010 • 0 comments

Ireland attracting top IT jobs

High-end IT roles within financial services in Ireland are holding up in the face of deteriorating economic conditions – if only there were enough talent available. Ireland seems to be the beneficiary of Citigroup’s new centralised IT function, and the bank has just announced the creation of 30 new high-end technology positions in its research [...]

By Paul Clarke, 24 July 2008 • 0 comments

Tech-recruiter gold rush

The money-makers in a gold rush are not the miners, but the people who sell the picks and shovels. Nick Workman is country manager for UK and Ireland at recruitment firm Global Solutions. He recruits IT recruiters – but says he’s running out of picks and shovels and is having to look as far afield [...]

By anonymous, 20 September 2007 • 0 comments