Positive outlook in the Support & Infrastructure Market
Dec/090
There has been a definite increase in job orders in recent times in the Dublin & Cork market, especially from October onwards. This upturn in registered jobs has been significantly noticed in the support and infrastructure market. This market collapsed at the end of 2008 as clients halved their infrastructure professionals on site and made a move towards outsourcing their IT support function. From a consultancy perspective, large contracts were cut and infrastructure projects were put on hold as clients budgets were squeezed forcing redundancies throughout the sector.
After a tough year of restructuring across all areas of businesses there has been a slight shift towards re-hiring in this market. Consultancies are slowly but surely bulking up their professional services team with high-end skills such as Virtualisation, Storage and Network Security. This will ensure that they are positioned correctly in the marketplace to secure any major upcoming contracts as IT budgets are slowly increased. From an internal prospective, IT support functions are growing again. Companies have begun to increase their operational staff, and as this happens it is being mirrored by the support functions.
Although it is a minimal growth, it is still a positive at the end of a very “taxing” year.
Clement Dupuis, Master CISSP, coming to Dublin.
Aug/090
Clement Dupuis will be coming to Dublin to conduct a Boot Camp on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) course at Espion’s training centre in Stillorgan, Co. Dublin from Monday-Friday, 21-25 September. Depuis is a global leader in the CISSP circuit and has created a website which ranks number one as the best CISSP training sites on the internet, www.cccure.org. Fees for the five day course are €2,250 per delegate which will include student books and Dupuis latest study material.
Verkom Language Open Day
Jul/090
Language Open Day WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12TH 2009
Premier Group is hosting an Open day and Evening on Wednesday the 12TH of August from 12.00 – 7.00pm in our offices: Level 4, 6 Lapps Quay Cork City Centre
We currently have a variety of vacancies for bi-lingual and multi-lingual candidates. If you speak one or more of the following languages and have a minimum of 1 years experience in the below areas, we would love to meet you on Wednesday 12th. All you need to do is e-mail your updated cv to permjobs@verkom.ie and come to our offices between 12:00pm and 7:00pm.
Please note you need to have permission to work in the EU without a working visa.
Skills/Experience in any of the following areas:
Customer Services
Sales/Telesales
Administration
Technical Support
Accounts Payable/Receivable
General Ledger Accountant
Credit Control/Collections
Language Requirements:
French
Flemish
Dutch
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Turkish
Greek
Danish
Working in Cork:
Cork is Ireland’s second city with a population in the city of 100,000. It is a university city with a multi-cultural population, popular with professionals relocating from across Europe and the Middle East.
Cork is home to a high volume of multi-national companies and is very attractive to job seekers looking to develop their career. This, along with a vibrant nightlife, its proximity to the coastline, flights to Europe and its cosmopolitan life-style makes Cork an ideal city for re-locaters.
Shortage of IT Professionals with Languages!
Jun/090
Finally it looks like things are picking up in the IT sector after a very slow-moving first half of 2009. Long may it continue!
The types of IT roles coming in are now becoming more and more specific as companies want to ensure that they get the exact skills required to add value to their business and provide return on investment.
While the upturn has yet to filter through to the areas of Project Management, Program management and the more business-focused IT roles, we are seeing an increase in development, RDBMS and Technical Support. However, the technical support roles all require fluency in a second or even a second and third language.
It is currently proving difficult to get candidates with the right level of technical knowledge combined with fluency in Spanish, Danish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese. All companies, of course, require fluent English and some require 2 of the mentioned languages along with strong Technical skills.
If you have a strong technical support background and are fluent in any of the above languages with English, Cork is your oyster right now! We’d be delighted to hear from you if you are on the lookout or know of anyone who is thinking of making the move over to Cork.
Alternatively, if you have any ideas or suggestions on how to source these candidates most effectively, let us know!