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# employment - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
Photos: Staff at Game stores remain in limbo as sit-in continues
Staff at the 11 Game stores around the country have been holding sit-ins in a dispute over redundancy payments.
# employment - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
Large jobs fair announced for May
Jobs at home and abroad will be on offer at the Jobs Expo 2012 at Dublin’s RDS in May.
# employment - Saturday 31 March, 2012
As it happened: Enda Kenny’s speech to the Fine Gael Árd Fheis
We liveblogged proceedings from Dublin as the Taoiseach gave the keynote address at his party’s national conference.
# employment - Friday 30 March, 2012
Poll: Would low-paid workers report put you off buying Apple products?
Independent investigation found “significant issues” with work conditions and pay at Apple supplier factories. Would it make you think twice about buying Apple goods?
# employment - Thursday 29 March, 2012
“We have to make a stand”: Game staff to meet with PwC today
Staff are meeting with PwC representatives this morning and say they hope to receive clarification on their redundancy and whether PwC Ireland is looking after the administration of stores here.
# employment - Sunday 25 March, 2012
Things to do when you’ve been laid off: build a submarine
Chinese man is now selling his mini submersible vehicles to fishermen so they can catch lucrative sea delicacies.
# employment - Monday 19 March, 2012
6 Reasons why you didn’t get the job
Why didn’t you get the job? There can be many reasons – and a boss has given their thoughts about some of the reasons people might not be familar with.
# employment - Sunday 18 March, 2012
11 amazing things that Google employees can learn for free
If you work for Google, you can take part in some pretty interesting classes. We take a look at 11 of them, from beekeeping to how do to do your taxes.
# employment - Friday 16 March, 2012
Bruton announces €60m round of venture capital funding
The minister says the aim is to bring new investment and experience to Ireland to generate employment.
# employment - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Competition aims for new approach to graduate employment
The National Student Challenge will take place in UCD today in what gradireland hopes is a new way of providing opportunities for graduates with some of Ireland’s biggest companies.
# employment - Friday 9 March, 2012
TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Jobs
The unemployment crisis has been one of the biggest issues facing the government. One year in, what has it achieved on the jobs front?
# employment - Wednesday 7 March, 2012
Employment rises slightly in last quarter of 2011
However the unemployment rate remained unchanged from the previous quarter at 14.6 per cent.
# employment - Thursday 1 March, 2012
Over seven companies collapsed each day in February
Meanwhile, business and credit analysts at Vision-net say that three out of five hotels and restaurants are in danger of going out of business.
# employment - Monday 27 February, 2012
Dublin print firm closes with the loss of 60 jobs
Wood Printcraft has gone into receivership today. One staff said the closure had left the workforce “devastated”.
# employment - Friday 24 February, 2012
The 5 at 5: Friday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
ESRI: Austerity is working – and there are few other alternatives
In a report published today, the think-tank forecast that Ireland’s economy will grow by 0.9 per cent this year.
Column: Lost your job? Here’s what you need to do…
Losing work leaves many people at a loss. Here John McGuire explains what to do when the news arrives – and why it may not be as bad as you think.
# employment - Thursday 23 February, 2012
The Daily Fix: Thursday
Your nightly round-up of the day’s biggest news stories…
Govt to launch plan to get people back to work
Sustainable employment is the aim of the Government’s new Pathways to Work programme.
# employment - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
Hireland has secured employment for 150 people
Almost 600 companies have pledged more than 2,500 jobs just one month after launch.
# employment - Monday 20 February, 2012
Convenience store chain to create 150 new jobs
Centra has announced it is to invest €10 million in new store openings in Ireland this year.
National Employment Week gets underway in Dublin
The conference will hear from cabinet ministers and employment stakeholders over the next few days.
# employment - Thursday 16 February, 2012
€645m saved through social welfare ‘control measures’
Joan Burton says 982,000 individual claims have been reviewed, including savings of €60m from the ‘special investigation unit’.
437 jobseekers had payments cut for refusing employment help
The jobseekers had their payments reduced after the Department of Social Protection examined around 2,000 cases of people who failed to attend two Employment Action Plan interviews.
# employment - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
Mastercard announces 130 new jobs for Dublin
The highly skilled jobs are to be created in the company’s new global office for technology which will be headquartered in Dublin.
# employment - Monday 13 February, 2012
The Daily Fix: Monday
Catch up on the day’s biggest news – as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
Here’s how the Government plans to create 100,000 jobs
Enda Kenny launched the much-heralded Action Plan today. We’ve picked out the key points from the document.
# employment - Sunday 12 February, 2012
In pictures: 13 of the weirdest real-life job applications
From topless photos to Donald Trump role plays, here are some of the ways people tried to make their applications stand out…
# employment - Monday 6 February, 2012
Column: We need to create Irish jobs. Here’s how we can do it
Foreign investment is all well and good, writes Aaron McKenna, but only homegrown jobs will pull us out of recession. Here’s what we need to do…
# employment - Sunday 5 February, 2012
Careers clinic: Playing for Ireland (how I got off the Live Register)
One man tells his story of losing a job after working consistently all his life – and how he did everything to get stuck back in… even with an income cut of €25,000.
# employment - Saturday 4 February, 2012
Government “working day and night” to get people off the dole: Enda Kenny
Speaking in Cork last night, the Taoiseach said the cabinet has launched “an internetional charm offensive” to improve the state’s reputation.
# employment - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
CSO: Women are more highly qualified than men – but still earn less
The Central Statistics Office has released a major new study into men and women in Ireland.
Eurozone unemployment hit an all-time high at the end of last year
Unemployment in the wider 27 member state European Union has also risen.
# employment - Monday 30 January, 2012
Dublin falls from 12th to 198th in study of major world cities
The only cities which did worse than Dublin in the study of 200 cities were Lisbon and Athens.
Column: Interview? Put some trousers on, pyjama girls
We’re very quick to judge, writes TheJournal.ie columnist Lisa McInerney, but it still stands that the dole office is no place for parading the middle finger to society.
# employment - Saturday 28 January, 2012
Column: Here’s why we need Hireland – and why it will work
Co-founder of jobs creation initiative Gerard O’Neill on why he and his friends wanted the national conversation to turn to job creation – not job losses.
Social media will find you the perfect job? No – but it can help.
Recruitment expert Richard Eardley gives his tips on how to think of yourself of a brand – and how to manage it.
# employment - Thursday 26 January, 2012
Careers clinic: What on earth is an online job interview?
With increasing numbers of job applicants, companies are using online tools to cut down on face-to-face interviews. Here is what you need to know…
Unemployed people “are not statistics”
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore hits back at Joe Higgins description of ‘Pathways to Work’ interviews for jobless as “Alcoholics Anonymous style” meetings.
Column: I’m jobless, so why am I excluded from JobBridge?
Laws that hinder parts of society from following their chosen career might remind us of the past – but they exist in Ireland today, writes Francis Dunne.
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