March 24th 2017
It was announced this week that Jobs Expo Dublin will be returning to Croke Park Conference Centre on Saturday 22nd April. This April’s event is set to be our busiest ever, with skilled professionals from all sectors attending. It is estimated that 70,000 skilled professionals have attended Jobs Expo in recent years. Jobs Expo events […]
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March 20th 2017
Over half (56%) of Irish workplaces ban all or some social media according to a new Censuswide poll of 500 Irish office workers commissioned by technology company, Ricoh Ireland. Facebook is banned in 47% of workplaces followed by Twitter which is forbidden in 36% of offices. Content sharing platforms Instagram and Snapchat are blacklisted in […]
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March 10th 2017
The leader of a new regional jobs initiative outside of Dublin claims the National Planning Framework needs to include substantial supports for hubs outside of Dublin. Director of the South East Action Plan for jobs, Sean McKeown, claims the framework needs to include significant investment in rural Irish roads, in broadband connectivity and allowing hubs such […]
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March 09th 2017
The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) have today expressed concern at the length of time it is taking for business owners to get credit approval. They are urging businesses to tap alternative sources of finance. This comes after the release of their latest Quarterly Bank Watch Survey which shows an improvement in the […]
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March 02nd 2017
In a recent survey conducted by iReach Insights, 1,000 adults were asked about their thoughts on job automation and whether this will be a threat to employment in Ireland. Fifty per cent believe job automation will happen in the near future, 43% in the far future and 7% don’t think job automation will occur at […]
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February 21st 2017
Some 60 per cent of SMEs covered in a survey by the Small Firms Association (SFA) plan to increase staff pay this year, with rises set to average 2 per cent. However, the SFA says that a noticeable trend is that many companies are shifting towards improving conditions of employment and other benefits rather than […]
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February 21st 2017
It was announced today that more than 3,000 people will attend business events in Cork from Monday 6th to Friday 10th March as part of Local Enterprise Week. The Local Enterprise Offices of South Cork, Cork North and West and Cork City today announced their programme of events for Local Enterprise Week, a national event […]
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February 20th 2017
The Small Firms Association has today released research on the Pay and Conditions of employment in 576 small companies (with less than 50 employees drawn from manufacturing, distribution, retail and services), employing 12,903 employees. The research found that the average rates of basic pay varied from €429 per week (Care Assistant) to €767 per week […]
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