Lumension to Leverage Ireland’s Strong Technology Talent Pool, Flexible Business Culture and Long History of Technology Innovation to Enhance Research, Development and Innovation

Scottsdale, AZ, Aug 12, 2009

Lumension®, the global leader in operational endpoint management and security, today announced the expansion of its global operations with the opening of a new office in Galway, Ireland. The establishment of the new office will serve as an expansion hub for Lumension’s product research and development functions. The new office will enable Lumension to further execute on its strategy to broaden its global footprint, strengthen its capabilities, and drive innovation in technology research and development while increasing operational efficiencies.

“Over the years, Ireland has proven itself to be a vibrant economy that boasts technological innovation at many levels,” said Pat Clawson, Chairman and CEO of Lumension. “The new office in Ireland offers important assets that will help Lumension accelerate its growth, including a talented workforce, modern infrastructure, ready to deploy business facilities, and lower cost of doing business.”

“Ireland provides a rich pool of talent in research and development. Despite the challenging economic landscape, Lumension is committed to continued efforts in recruiting and extend the advancement of research and development across all four key areas of the company’s solution suite, including Vulnerability Management, Data and Endpoint Protection, and Compliance and IT Risk Management,” Clawson continued.

Lumension firmly believes the new region will help drive operational excellence based on Ireland’s attractive tax incentives, further allowing the company to streamline costs across the entire organization while focusing on technology innovation. According to the U.S. Department of State, Ireland is attractive to many U.S. businesses based on numerous factors, the high quality and flexibility of the English-speaking work force; strong intellectual property protection; cooperative labor relations; political stability; pro-business government policies; a transparent judicial system; and an existing cluster of international corporations operating successfully.

Lumension initially plans to hire over 30 new employees in the region to build out development and technology research areas with plans to grow its operations in the coming years. The Industrial Development Agency of Ireland will launch an event to celebrate the opening of Lumension’s new business operations in Ireland on August 12, 2009.

Lumension has maintained a strong presence in Europe since 1991 and supports additional EMEA offices in Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and Spain. Worldwide headquarters for Lumension is located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About Lumension Security, Inc.

Lumension Security, Inc., a global leader in operational endpoint management and security, develops, integrates and markets security software solutions that help businesses protect their vital information and manage critical risk across network and endpoint assets. Lumension enables more than 5,100 customers worldwide to achieve optimal security and IT success by delivering a proven and award-winning solution portfolio that includes Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Protection, Data Protection, and Reporting and Compliance offerings. Lumension is known for providing world-class customer support and services 24×7, 365 days a year. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Lumension has operations worldwide, including Virginia, Utah, Florida, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Australia, and Singapore. Lumension: IT Secured. Success Optimized.™ More information can be found at www.lumension.com.

240 new jobs in Dublin & Newry with Teleperformance — French call centre operator Teleperformance will create 240 jobs in Dublin & Newry to support grocery chain Sainsbury’s. This positive news follows an announcement earlier this year for 610 jobs at its customer contact centres in Newry and Bangor.

20 new jobs in Dublin with (AMPAC-ISP Group) — America Pacific Corporation will create 20 new jobs in Dublin over the next five years in Dublin following the decision to set up its European HQ in the city. AMPAC-ISP designs and manufactures mission-critical structural components for the European space industry.

100 new jobs in Cork with Olive Safety — A Cork H&S firm plans to create 100 jobs over the next year.

40 new jobs in Dublin with SuccessFactors — Talent management software provider SuccessFactors will establish its European Multilingual Business Centre in Dublin creating 40 high-value jobs in Ireland. The new European Multilingual Business Centre will be located in Dundrum. The European Multilingual Business Centre will service customers in the small and medium-size markets.

300 jobs nationwide with Bord Na Móna — Bord Na Mona are investing in green energy and will create jobs as a result. The jobs will be created in a range of areas in projects such as environmental solution, waste recovery and recycling and new investment in wind and gas power stations.

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The Taoiseach has told the Dáil that the number of people who signed on the Live Register last month was up 11,400. Brian Cowen said this morning that the total number on the register is now 413,500. He said the growth was the slowest rate of increase since January.

In the year to June, the Central Statistics Office says there was an unadjusted increase of 197,781 people signing on the dole, which is an increase of 89.6%.
This compares with an increase of 195,115 in the year to May. The standardised unemployment rate in June rose to 11.9% from 11.8% the previous month. June traditionally sees an increase in the numbers joining the dole as part-time teachers and other people employed in the education sector leave their jobs.

Opposition leaders accused the Taoiseach of misleading the Dáil about the figures.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said Mr Cowen departed from the norm by quoting the seasonally adjusted numbers rather than the actual figure. He said the real increase was 21,721 rather than 11,400.
Mr Kenny said the economy was in crisis and that the Department of Finance was in paralysis.

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said the Taoiseach was quoting the more attractive figure. Mr Gilmore said the Taoiseach’s comments that the figure represented the slowest rate of increase this year was akin to saying the country is sinking, but sinking more slowly.

Replying to a question from Mr Gilmore, the Taoiseach said he expected the unemployment rate would be in the region of 15.5% by the end of the year and that it could be higher in 2010.

General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions David Begg described the latest unemployment figures as a ‘mega-crisis’ and has urged the Government to invest €1bn into a job creation and protection plan.

Within the space of a month we had more recruitment industry activity than ever before in Ireland. Irish National Recruitment Federation had its Annual conference, and you can read about it on Jobs Blog. Microsoft organised the Recruitment Conference and a Tuesday Club, and both those are reviewed on the same site.

2 out of 3 recruiters in Ireland have lost their jobs since the recession started. Only the bare bones of the recruitment industry actually still exists.

Smart economists use recruitment figures as a barometer of the economy. What has been happening in the last 9 months is that about 1% of the workforce is made redundant and does not find the new job, hence goes on the dole.

The current predictions of the unemployment we are going to have in Ireland vary from 14% to 17%. The current trend puts us steady on 12% sometime next week. 15% in September and 17% at the end of the year. So we should reach that worst case predictions before the end of 2009.

In the same time there is no one predicting any recovery to start happening in January 2010. In the same time we expect the unemployment to miraculously stop growing. The reality is that all the signs are that the unemployment growth rate is steady. The last 9 months more or less each decreased the workforce for 1%. All the signs today show that the same is to continue for at least the end of the year. We might enter 2010 with one in five unemployment rate.

In the same time there are thousands of jobs in Ireland. Literally. And recruiters are finding it hard to fill those jobs. Employers are expecting the highest quality candidates ever. The number of skills are still in extreme shortage in Ireland. In fact Google announced recently that they are pulling about 1000 jobs out of their Irish operation centre, simply because they have not been able to find people with skills they are looking for here.

If you are looking for a job today, get ready and get organised.
It is not going to be easy and it’s not going to be quick to get another job for the most. Prepare mentally for the wage drop. In the similar level to the house price drop, or even more in some industries.

Get your CV ready, go and look at the jobs available, and do not only send you CV to the employers, but do call them, talk to them and present yourself in your best. Remember – there really are thousands of jobs available today in Ireland!

Euro area unemployment up to 9.2%
EU27 up to 8.6%
The euro area1 (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate2 was 9.2% in April 2009, compared with 8.9% in March3. It was 7.3% in April 2008. The EU271 unemployment rate was 8.6% in April 2009, compared with 8.4% in March3. It was 6.8% in April 2008. For the euro area this is the highest rate since September 1999, and for the EU27 since January 2006.
Eurostat estimates that 20.825 million men and women in the EU27, of which 14.579 million were in the euro area, were unemployed in April 2009. Compared with March, the number of persons unemployed increased by 556 000 in the EU27 and by 396 000 in the euro area. Compared with April 2008, unemployment went up by 4.653 million in the EU27 and by 3.100 million in the euro area.

These figures are published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (3.0%) and Austria (4.2%), and the highest rates in Spain (18.1%), Latvia (17.4%) and Lithuania (16.8%).
Compared with a year ago, two Member States recorded a fall in their unemployment rate and twenty-five Member States an increase. The falls were observed in Romania (6.1% to 5.8% between the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2008) and Greece (7.9% to 7.8% between the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2008). The highest increases were registered in Lithuania (4.3% to 16.8%), Latvia (6.1% to 17.4%) and Estonia (3.7% to 13.9%).
Between April 2008 and April 2009, the unemployment rate for males rose from 6.6% to 8.9% in the euro area and from 6.3% to 8.6% in the EU27. The female unemployment rate increased from 8.2% to 9.4% in the euro area and from 7.3% to 8.5% in the EU27.
In April 2009, the youth unemployment rate (under-25s) was 18.5% in the euro area and 18.7% in the EU27. In April 2008 it was 14.7% in both zones. The lowest rate was observed in the Netherlands (6.0%), and the highest rates in Spain (36.2%) and Latvia (29.2% in the first quarter of 2009).
In April 2009, the unemployment rate was 8.9% in the USA. In Japan it was 4.8% in March 2009.

1.
The euro area (EA16) consists of Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland.
The EU27 includes Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), the Czech Republic (CZ), Denmark (DK), Germany (DE), Estonia (EE), Ireland (IE), Greece (EL), Spain (ES), France (FR), Italy (IT), Cyprus (CY), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Hungary (HU), Malta (MT), the Netherlands (NL), Austria (AT), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), Finland (FI), Sweden (SE) and the United Kingdom (UK).
2.
Eurostat produces harmonised unemployment rates for individual EU Member States, the euro area and the EU. These unemployment rates are based on the definition recommended by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The measurement is based on a harmonised source, the European Union Labour Force Survey (LFS).
Based on the ILO definition, Eurostat defines unemployed persons as persons aged 15 to 74 who:
- are without work;
- are available to start work within the next two weeks;
- and have actively sought employment at some time during the previous four weeks.
The unemployment rate is the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labour force. The labour force is the total number of people employed plus unemployed.
The numbers of unemployed and the monthly unemployment rates are estimates based on results of the LFS which is a continuous household survey carried out in Member States on the basis of agreed definitions. These results are interpolated/extrapolated to monthly data using national survey data and/or national monthly series on registered unemployment. The most recent figures are therefore provisional; results from the Labour Force Survey are available 90 days after the end of the reference period for most Member States.
Monthly unemployment and employment series are calculated first at the level of four categories for each Member State (males and females 15-24 years, males and females 25-74 years). These series are then seasonally adjusted and all the national and European aggregates are calculated.
Member States may publish other rates such as register based unemployment rates, or rates based on national Labour Force Surveys or corresponding surveys. These rates may vary from those published by Eurostat due to a different definition or methodological choices.
Current deviations from the definition of unemployment in the EU Labour Force Survey:
Spain, Italy, and United Kingdom: Unemployment is restricted to persons aged 16-74. In Spain and Italy the legal age limit for working is 16.
Netherlands: Persons without a job, who are available for work and looking for a job are only included in unemployment if they express that they would like to work.
3.
The March 2009 unemployment rate for the EU27 has been revised. The rate published in News Release 61/2009 of 30 April 2009 was 8.3%. For the euro area the rate remains unchanged. Among Member States, the rate has been revised by between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points for Lithuania and Austria, and by more than 0.4 percentage points for Denmark, Estonia and Portugal. The revisions are primarily caused by the inclusion of the most recent EU Labour Force Survey data in the calculation process and updates to the seasonally adjusted series.
The following LFS data are used in the calculations of the monthly unemployment rates published in this News Release:
For Germany, Finland and Sweden up to and including April 2009.
For the Netherlands up to and including February-March-April 2009 (3-month rolling average).
For the United Kingdom up to and including January-February-March 2009 (3-month rolling average).
For Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Austria and Portugal up to and including 2009Q1.
For Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Greece, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia up to and including 2008Q4.
4.
Greece, Italy and Romania: quarterly data for all series.
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia: quarterly data for youth unemployment.
5.
Provisional data: the Swedish Labour Force Survey was amended in April 2005 to take further account of the EU harmonised methodology. This break in the series may affect the reliability of the seasonal adjustment.
Issued by: Eurostat Press Office

IKEA JOBS in Ireland – Careers in IKEA

If you want a job in Ikea get down to the Ballymun Civic Center between 10am and 5pm this weekend but expect competition for 280 jobs. It was reported that over 4,500 applicants for 50 supervisor jobs in the first Ikea superstore to open in the Republic in July. BUT if you are not in you can’t win. There will be certainly big interest in the recruitment drive BUT also the opening in July. The Dublin outlet will be 31,500 sq ft representing one of Ikea’s flagship stores and it will include a restaurant and a creche.

ESB create 3,700 GREEN JOBS in Ireland

3,700 new jobs have been created through the latest announced by the ESB of which 500 jobs will be offered to new recruits this year. The massive employment boost for thousands of workers was announced this week and is part of a €1bn a year investment in new green technologies.

Job loss in Dublin, Kerry, Limerick & Shannon

160 plus employees will lose jobs with recent closures and layoff at 5 firms

LIMERICK – Irish Dresden

Irish Dresden has stopped manufacturing with the loss of 15 jobs.

KERRY – BeoCare & Beru Electronics

The healthcare company BeoCare is expected to close and Beru Electronics is seeking redundancies. Expected loss is 40 jobs.

CLARE – Agilisys Contact Services

Agilisys Contact Services based in Shannon is transferring operations to UK. The company employs 71 staff.

DUBLIN – New Oceans Limited

The print & design company has closed with 36 jobs lost.

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4,500 plus construction jobs will be created over 10 years as part of the construction of a new campus development. An additional 1,160 positions will be created in a science and technology park, offices, shops and health and education facilities. The 73-acre site at Grangegorman is the planned new location for Dublin Institute of Technology campus which is currently based across 40 sites in the city. The site at Grangegorman will also be the location for a library, primary school and a new centre for mental health patients.

Parcel Link UK will create up to 45 new jobs in Mallow, Co. Cork through the opening of a new transfer centre in the next few weeks. The company which provides parcel delivery services will create 35 jobs immediately and is expected to create a further ten jobs in three months.

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We can expect more job losses in Dublin City according to comments from Dublin’s Lord Mayor. This is largely due to a tough festive season trading in Dublin City. Shoppers took advantage of interest rates and cheaper prices in the north in town like Newry and Belfast. While Dublin and the South suffered the North and border towns flourished. It is believed shopping footfall was down anywhere between 10% & 20% during the run up to Christmas.

Do you think shoppers are wrong to avail of cheaper prices in the north?

Personally I didn’t go up north during this period but have done during the year for household shopping. Traffic congestion and the fact that I don’t like shopping deterred me over the festive period.

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Over 25% of the mortgage brokers in Ireland fear for their jobs as the Irish Housing & Mortgage market grinds to a halt. Worse yet there are predictions that this could remain for some time to come. A recent conference in Brussels indicated that the Western European construction sector will not recover until 2011.

Ireland is not alone as the UK market is suffering too. Recent reports indicated that the economy shrank 1% in the last 3 months. Property prices are on a downward spiral and the construction sector mirror that of Ireland.

I was interested to read this morning that the days of a permanent pensionable job for life within the civil service seem to be numbered. It looks like new public sector reform could have a huge impact on new recruits to the civil service.

The government appointed a new “powerful expert group” – sound a bit like another large consultancy bill. What route the reforms will take and how much it will actually save all seem a bit vague at the minute. Two key areas under the spotlight are permanent pensionable status of jobs and performance.

I guess this spelling the end of a job for life in Ireland. This has been absent from the private sector for decades but the civil service was the “safe bet” for individuals. Permanent pensionable status of jobs was the key attraction for many employees and now that this will be removed I wonder what impact this will have on attracting staff in the future.

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SME’s employ a huge percentage of overall workers in Ireland but never quit hit the headlines. We read daily about the MNC’s letting staff go globally with a direct impact on jobs in Ireland – Recent news includes XEROX, SUN MICROSYSTEMS and more. But what about SME’s? We rarely read about them. Below is some worrying news about how exchange rates are crippling the SME sector in Ireland.

They are struggling but it seems that the weakening sterling is playing a big part in this. It is estimated that 95,000 jobs are at risk if sterling continues to weaken. 47% of SME’s export to the UK.

Jobs News keeping you up to date with all the latest Irish Jobs New. Read about some recent post including uncertainty at DELL. New jobs for GOA. Xerox chops 3,000 jobs globally

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We have been posting quite a bit on negative job announcements. Basically these have been the key stories over that last number of months. Well here is a bit of positive news!!

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We have had a flurry of positive job announcements in the last week across Ireland. Siemens announced the creation of 60 new jobs in Cork. Typetec announced the creation of 15 new jobs in Dublin. And Shannon received a 84 new jobs with announcements from Mentor Graphics and ON Semiconductor. These developments bring a small rainbow in what remains a dark economic situation in Ireland. For more information about these companies and stories visit – Siemens, Typetec, ON Semiconductor & Mentor Graphics.

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