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2.9.2004 Recruit Ireland: ICTU expected to ratify new national pay deal
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is expected to ratify the second phase of the Sustaining Progress agreement when it meets to vote on the deal later today.
31.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: 'I want to see why it is that a boy on the Shankill only stands a 1.8% chance of getting into higher education'
Education Correspondent Kathryn Torney speaks exclusively to the Northern Ireland Education Minister Barry Gardiner
26.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Help for victims of Troubles
Carolyn McCormick, secretary to the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund, an independent body which promotes peace and reconciliation tells Fiona McIlwaine Biggins about her busy role at the forefront of the organisation.
26.8.2004 Recruit Ireland: Job losses expected in Dairygold’s milk processing sites
FURTHER job losses are expected in Dairygold Co-op, which is currently examining how it might consolidate milk processing.
23.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Your wish, my command says hotel boss
Stuart Grant started off washing dishes in the hospitality industry.
19.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Raising the bar for skills
It's a case of public sector meeting private sector with extremely satisfying results. A local FE college - with funding from the Department for Employment and Learning - has been working with one of Northern Ireland's top manufacturing firms to improve the essential skills of its employees.
19.8.2004 Recruit Ireland: Construction worker employment up 2.8%
Employment in private firms (with five or more persons engaged) in the construction industry increased by 2.8% in June 2004, in comparison with June 2003, according to the Central Statistics Office.
19.8.2004 Recruit Ireland: IDC: Positive Outlook For IT Budgets
The outlook for IT budgets for 2004 is the most positive it has been for three years, according to the findings of the latest edition of IDC's annual user survey, IT Trends and Expenditure in Ireland.
16.8.2004 Rectuit Ireland: 300 call-centre jobs in pipeline for Cork
A Cork businessman is to create 300 new jobs for Cork city, the Evening Echo reports.
16.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Hands-on aspect to job scene event at Odyssey
Interactive skills will be to the fore at a major recruitment and training exhibition in Belfast next month - in a bid to tempt visitors to try something new.
9.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Music labour of love in class of 2004
As the McPeake Family - one of the most famous families in the field of Irish folk/trad music - celebrate the recent success of the first World Irish Music Championships and International Summer School.
5.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: In the frontline for equality
With 13 years working in the field of equality, KEITH BROWN of the Equality Commission has witnessed enormous change in employment legislation here. But has prejudice and discrimination really gone away?
5.8.2004 Recruit Ireland: Looking for a Career Change into the Pharmaceutical Sector?
Newly established PharmaCareers Ireland was set up to provide Training & Career Advisory Services for individuals interested in developing a career in the Pharmaceutical industry.
5.8.2004 Recruit Ireland: Eurozone Unemployment Stays Static
The unemployment rate in the eurozone was stable at 9% in June, according to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency.
2.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Small firms strongest on recruitment, says report
DEMAND for staff in small businesses has reached a two-year high, with nine out of 10 companies planning to recruit over the next few months, a new survey has revealed.
2.8.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Make sure you are not left out in the cold
THE Lone Ranger and Tonto were camping in the desert; they set up their tent and soon fell asleep.
29.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Beauty business more than skin deep
The most important is a commitment to customer service.
29.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Website opening eyes to life in Reserve Forces
NORTHERN Ireland's Reserve Forces and Cadets are making an assault on the worldwide web in a bid to boost recruitment and encourage more general awareness of the organisations.
29.7.2004 Recruit Ireland: Centocor To Create 330 Jobs At Cork Plant
Biopharmaceutical company Centocor in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork is to invest in a major manufacturing facility that will create up to 330 jobs over five years.
26.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Setting targets way to aim for future success
WHAT gets measured gets managed, and the key to successful management today is the setting of objectives and the measurement of results against those objectives..
16.7.2004 Recruit Ireland: Contact centre jobs boost for Clonakilty
A Multi-Media contact centre which services the telecoms, financial and information technology sector is to create 50 jobs at its offices in West Cork.
12.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Work pressure versus service to customer
IAM not usually a big shopper; however, over the last few months I have changed this for two reasons...
12.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Work pressure versus service to customer
IAM not usually a big shopper; however, over the last few months I have changed this for two reasons...
12.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Adaptability is key to modern work practices
I HAVE noticed, particularly in more recent years, that trends in employment practice and employee competencies demand a more fluid...
12.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: New direction opening door for women returners
A SECOND group of women are due to embark on a successful IT training programme.
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7.7.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Hiring confidence here above the UK average
Employer hiring confidence in Northern Ireland continues to be positive.
7.7.2004 Recruit Ireland: Manufacturing growth slows slightly
Manufacturing activity continued to grow in June, but at a slower pace than in May, according to the latest figures...
30.6.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Job assist scheme big boost to job-seekers
A ground-breaking initiative has been launched aimed at improving employability in west Belfast...
28.6.2004 Recruit Ireland: 5 steps to mastering your money…..for ever. By Anne Walsh
Do you feel as though you have more month than money? Do you wonder where your salary actually goes? Do you feel as though you never seem to have enough?
21.6.2004 Recruit Ireland: Jobs surge as economy gets back on track
The economy is back on a buoyant track with 1,000 jobs being created a week and up to 28 major IDA job investments expected later this year.
21.6.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Alternative route to good health
After 35 years in nursing, Betty Cunningham now helps people find health, happiness and harmony through integrated natural health care.
14.6.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Helping fight addictions
MARTY CARDWELL heads up a Community Addictions Team, based in Newtownards, for people in the grip of addiction to drink or drugs.
14.6.2004 Recruit Ireland: US Manufacturers Investing More In Ireland
A new study by Deloitte has found that Ireland is now the fourth most important destination for US manufacturers investing overseas.
31.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Managing your boss, are you really?
IT IS not uncommon for most of us to occasionally feel that our talents are not being fully engaged or recognised.
31.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: 100 new jobs for long-term unemployed on Dublin's north side
Participants in a new joint initiative by the Northside Partnership will take up to 100 of the 350 jobs at Tesco Ireland's new Clare Hall store due to open on Dublin's north side on July 19.
26.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: Employers need policies on equality
Employers must draw up policies to ensure they are not in breach of equality legislation.
26.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Dessian explains how jobs axe will fall
A total of 38 full-time staff and 32 part-time workers will lose their jobs because of the dispute...
24.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Job loss news painful for the messenger too
FEW words in our business vocabulary evoke as much fear and anxiety as termination, retrenchment and job loss.
24.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: Intel €1.6bn Investment To Create 400 Jobs
Semiconductor and chip maker Intel has announced plans for a €1.6 billion investment at its plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare, that will create around 400 jobs.
20.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Darwin survival of fittest theory still relevant
If you want to realise your full career potential you may have to change the way you go about seeking work.
17.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Call centre employment figures healthy
CALL centres in the United Kingdom will recruit an extra 200,000 workers over the next three years, taking employment levels to over a million, an official report has predicted.
17.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Show must go on Tommy's motto
Tommy Deane started work at Balmoral Showgrounds as a teenage labourer back in 1964. In the 40 years since, the now showgrounds manager has prepared the venue for a host of famous visitors.
17.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: IBM invests E22m in software unit
THE Government yesterday approved an IDA grant aid package to support IBM’s E22 million investment in the development of a world-class knowledge centre and software development facility in Dublin.
17.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: Fastnet on a fast track to recruitment success
Citing Positive market trends in the recruitment sector, father and daughter team Pat and
Niamh O’Driscoll celebrate four years in business as directors at Fastnet Recruitment.
10.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Tesco starts work on new store
WORK has started on a new superstore in Cookstown, with the prospect of around 200 new jobs.
10.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: 'Wheeler' dealer proud of position in motor sales
In 1979 a young Bob Mullan took his first steps into car sales by stocking a small site in Ballykelly, Co Londonderry.
6.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: Industrial Sector Sees Continuing Growth
The Irish manufacturing sector grew for the eighth consecutive month in April, though the pace of expansion slowed slightly...
3.5.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Position calls for artt-istic licence
The appropriately named Cormac Artt spends his working life designing welcoming and functional interiors - from pubs to churches.
3.5.2004 Recruit Ireland: March Manufacturing Prices Down 5.1%
Factory gate prices increased by 1.1% in March 2004 compared to a decrease of 0.5% recorded in March 2003, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
26.4.2004 Recruit Ireland: ECB Not Overly Optimistic On Jobs Front
The European Central Bank does not expect to see any noticeable decline in unemployment in the eurozone before the second half of this year.
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26.4.2004 Belfast Telegraph: High opinion of oneself brings risk of a fall
IT IS not uncommon for most of us to occasionally feel that our talents are not being fully engaged or recognised.
19.4.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Interviewer needs to both listen and hear
HAVE you ever thought to yourself, when interviewing candidates, "if only they would stop trying to put their best feet forward for a moment and just tell me about themselves".
19.4.2004 Recruit Ireland: Inflation Rate At Five-Year Low
The annual inflation rate fell for the seventh month in a row in March to 1.3%, its lowest level for five years, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
13.4.2004 Recruit Ireland: Small firms to create 36,000 jobs
SMALL businesses will create more than 36,000 jobs this year, more than double last year's number, according to lobby group the Small Firms Association.
13.4.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Survey shows growing employer optimism
Strong work opportunities, particularly in the financial services sector, have been forecast for Northern Ireland in the coming months.
7.4.2004 Belfast Telegraph: 'Figuring' out the future
A yawning pensions gap and the spectre of new graduates saddled with debts for their education are just two good reasons to take responsibility for your personal financial planning.
7.4.2004 Recriuit Ireland: Lack of specific law for one-in-ten bullied at work
Almost one in every 10 workers has reported being subject to intimidation in the workplace, according to a recent survey...
5.4.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Cast your net: your catch may surprise you
WHILE I have noticed an increase in the number of jobs being advertised and I sense a growing confidence in the future of the economy, I also feel that this year could see the beginning of a major downsizing in employment in the public sector.
5.4.2004 Recruit Ireland: CSO figs show construction earnings rise in 2003
The average weekly earnings for clerical and operative workers in the construction industry increased 1.7% to €675.37, on the twelve months between September 2002 and 2003.
29.3.2004 Recruit Ireland: Employers may be liable for heavy duty issues
Kieran McHugh says obesity will soon be on the workplace agenda, given that 10% of European adults are overweight.
29.3.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Leading the way in aviation development
Colin Elliott heads up the engineering department at Bombardier Aerospace in Belfast. Here he tells Nigel Tilson about his work in the aviation industry.
24.3.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Job offer not sole priority at interview
Are you one of the lucky few who have gone through the interview process and been offered the job?
24.3.2004 Recruit Ireland:Employers body calls for wage rise restraint
Employers group IBEC has fired the opening shot in advance of the upcoming national pay talks...
18.3.2004 Recruit Ireland: Nurturing of staff indicative of a good manager
Donal Cronin says effective coaching is dependent on the delegation of duties to less experienced personnel.
15.3.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Job scene place to be for future employment
PREPARATIONS are once again under way for one of Northern Ireland's largest recruitment, skills and training exhibitions.
15.3.2004 Recruit Ireland: Workforce flexibility will keep us competitive
GREATER work flexibility can give the Irish workforce the competitive edge that it has somewhat relinquished in terms solely of cost, according to Áine Maria Mizzoni, Grafton Recruitment Ireland’s new managing director.
11.3.2004 Vault: Establishing and Maintaining an Organizational System
Now that you know how your company works, you need to make sure you're organized as well.
10.3.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Darwin survival of fittest theory still relevant
It will be those who not only develop their skills to recognise business needs and opportunities, but also use those skills to capitalise on those needs, that will survive...
9.3.2004 Recruit Ireland: Hi-tech firm to create 52 jobs in Belfast
A US electronics firm is set to create 52 new jobs by locating a £10m (€14.9m) manufacturing operation in west Belfast, it was announced today.
1.3.2004 Recruit Ireland: No disagreement about value of skilful argument
COUPLES argue; arguments are a natural part of any relationship. Some people might worry that they argue too much and that the number of arguments they have says something about their relationship.
25.2.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Danger... people at work
GOING to work every day might leave you feeling stressed and tired, but few people would expect their job to damage their physical health.
25.2.2004 Recruit Ireland: Give workers more flexibility, employers urged
Workers must be allowed more flexibility to balance their social and family lives with their job responsibilities, a new employer network has urged.
19.2.2004 Recruit Ireland: Managers 'work longer hours than employees'
Managers are working longer hours than their employees, according to a new workplace lifestyle survey.
17.2.2004 Recruit Ireland: After 30 years of equal pay legislation — men are still paid more
Men are still paid 15% more than their female work colleagues — and the gap has only marginally narrowed in the last four years
17.2.2004 Belfast Telegraph: Mobile phones and employees
CERTAIN categories of employees may be provided with mobile phones as a necessary part of their job, particularly where the job involves a lot of travel.
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