Irish Examiner reports that bookmaker Paddy Power has announced the creation of 500 new Irish-based jobs, to come on stream over the next three years. The jobs will be spread across the company’s retail outlets and its online business centre at its Tallaght headquarters.

The Irish Independent notes that consultancy firm Ernst & Young plans to create more than 300 Irish jobs over the next 18 months. Half of the new employees will be graduates with degrees in engineering, IT, legal, business, accounting and finance.

The Irish Independent reports that Hewlett-Packard is to create 50 jobs at its base in Co Kildare. HP said it was creating positions for “highly-skilled, multi-lingual graduates” to work as support for Microsoft software programs. HP Ireland’s managing director Martin Murphy said the company could add a further 70 people at a later date depending on the success of the new hires.

Social Networking sites like LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, and others started dominating the use of the Internet worldwide. Even the search engines themselves are attracting less and less visitors every month this year. Social Media is what it is all about now.

The Irish Recruitment sector has coped on and the first Irish Social Networking site Jobs Market is rapidly growing in popularity. The Irish Job boards have no answer to a free service offered to everyone from Jobs Market web site. Some job sites have opened up and are offering free advertising to all employers, to try slowing down of the candidates leaving to the social media sites.

Jobs Market is a free web site where both Candidates and Employers can publish. Candidates publish their Profiles and even blogs, and Employers publish their Jobs and company profiles and again blog posts. Anyone can connect to anyone, and candidates can decide if to accept the offers to connect from the Employers.

A free site Jobs Market is best positioned to help Irish recession and get the available workforce in contact with the right employers.

The Good news is the launch of a new Irish Job Site: Worky. Worky seems to be a bit different than the traditional Jobs Sites in Ireland. YOU cannot search for a job or apply for a job there. What you do is you publish a profile and hope that someone will be interested in you. A bit like LinkedIN, where you publish your LinkedIN Profile, and wait for the employers to headhunt you. Worky is a new site, and you will not really be hired the same day you publish you profile, especially with the current recession climate. If you really need a job now, any of the leading Irish Jobs Sites is a safer bet.

LinkedIN is where you should invest some time if you have not already and when the recession is over your profile there will help you be found by the recruiters and headhunted.

And there is Worky being advertised extensively offline. So this might capture the Employers who do not use the Internet for their recruitment. The question is, how will they find you profile on the Internet if they do not use it?

Perhaps the Worky TV advert will tell you:

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.

It was announced last week that Option Wireless will create 145 new jobs in the cork region. Option Wireless are located at the Kilbarry Industrial Estate. The company currently employs 300 staff and the new jobs will bring the total employees to 445. The new staff will undertake leading edge process development activities.

The sun was also shining on the jobs front in Cork with news that Quinn Insurance will create 500 jobs in the region. These jobs will be created over the next 4 years. Quinn Insurance is a large employer in Ireland currently employing 3,000 staff. The new jobs in cork will be in the area of underwriting, claim management and customer services.

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Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s announcement that it will cut 10 percent of its global workforce (1,500 staff, Xerox announced it plans to cut 3,000 jobs across the globe. Xerox broke the negative job news as it released its quarterly earnings figures. They posted a 2% increase in profits but the slowdown in orders forced their hand to announce 1,500 job losses. Xerox has cut its workforce by just short of 9,000 since 2005.

Closer to home Cavan Town received some positive news with the creation of 70 new jobs in the region. Pauwels Trafo Ireland will create the new jobs as part of a 12m investment at its manufacturing facility. The company manufactures wind transformers. Dublin also received a similar boost when Microsol announced that it would be investing in Research & Development at its facility off Pearse Street in D2.

There has been a steady flow of R&D related announcements but unfortunately job loss announcements are greatly outweighing them. R&D jobs are sought after by the government but they generally do not offer high volumes of jobs.
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WOW – not surprising but still a shock all the same

Latest figures indicate that Irish unemployment rose in the moth of September to the highest in 11 years as the property crash and world credit crisis slows growth and recruitment. Unemployed recorded at 244,500 which is the highest figure since 1997. Unemployment figures have increased by 79,565 in the last year which is the biggest yearly increase since 1967.

Another report indicated that Ballina, Tralee and Dundalk were the worst unemployment spots in the country. The rate of unemployment in Ballina was 15.8%, 14.2% in Tralee and 13.9% in Dundalk. At the positive end of things were Malahide and Leixlip at just 4%.