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If you’ve been passing through Dublin Airport this week, you’ve probably noticed the Enterprise Ireland stand ‘ItsHappeningHere‘ and wondered what it’s all about. Click the video to find out about more than 2000 jobs with more than 600 Irish software companies.
If you’re not able to say hello to Anne, David, Rob, Jim, Alan , Jennifer or any of the other EI people taking their turn on the stand, pass on this link to a friend who is home for the holidays.
Want to know more about what Enterprise Ireland is doing to build the software sector in Ireland? Come along to our Galway event to find out. It’s on at the Pillo Hotel, Headford Road, Galway on Dec 1st @ 12.30. Full agenda is below, to book your place contact contact: marie.biard@enterprise-ireland.com or Phone (091) 735900
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This is a guest post from Liz McCarthy, Business Development Manager at Annadale Technologies in Kerry. Aside from taking part in the ITsHappening here software jobs in Ireland promotion, Liz talks through some of the ways they kickstart non-IT students into jobs in the Software Industry. And if you’re interested in working at Annadale, find out more on their Jobs page.
In response to the limited availability of talented programmers graduating from Irish Universities (and the parallel trend of large multinationals handpicking the top students from relevant disciplines), we at Annadale Technologies decided to address the source of the problem – the tendency of high-achieving pupils opting for high-points courses such as Medicine and Law on their CAO, rather than technology courses such as Engineering and Computer Science.
We felt that this tendency is linked with the fact that most young Irish people are not exposed to the technology which powers the gadgets they use every day, as the standard of IT education in the Irish classroom leaves a lot to be desired. We felt that as part of our mission of growing our Kerry-based software company we should reach out to students and demonstrate to them first hand how exciting and fulfilling a career in software development can be.
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