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100 new jobs at 02

  • 20-05-2010 2:41pm
    #1
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭


    This is some good news that should be posted here too.


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  • #2
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Actually its Telefónica O2's parent thats creating the jobs.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0520/breaking33.html

    Around another 5 more of these should recoup the jobs already lost this week.


  • #3
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Those jobs arent lost yet, lets keep optimsitic for those people


  • #4
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    You'll need a foreign language for one of these jobs.

    These jobs are really for non-Irish EU nationals when it boils down to it and for the PC brigade, no there is nothing wrong with that. Irish people need to learn some foreign languages to get these type of jobs, every job helps the tax base that one bit further.


  • #5
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    gurramok wrote: »
    You'll need a foreign language for one of these jobs.

    These jobs are really for non-Irish EU nationals when it boils down to it and for the PC brigade, no there is nothing wrong with that. Irish people need to learn some foreign languages to get these type of jobs, every job helps the tax base that one bit further.

    Wow, the Personal Computer brigade are very powerful.


  • #6
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Wow, the Personal Computer brigade are very powerful.

    Yeh, you'll need to know how to use a Personal Computer as well to get one of these jobs :D


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  • #7
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    gurramok wrote: »
    You'll need a foreign language for one of these jobs.

    These jobs are really for non-Irish EU nationals when it boils down to it and for the PC brigade, no there is nothing wrong with that. Irish people need to learn some foreign languages to get these type of jobs, every job helps the tax base that one bit further.

    What! These jobs are only open to people with some kind of a skillset? Shocking.


  • #8
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    dvpower wrote: »
    What! These jobs are only open to people with some kind of a skillset? Shocking.

    Yeh, if you don't have a foreign language forget it! (like most Irish people)


  • #9
    themont85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭themont85


    gurramok wrote: »
    You'll need a foreign language for one of these jobs.

    These jobs are really for non-Irish EU nationals when it boils down to it and for the PC brigade, no there is nothing wrong with that. Irish people need to learn some foreign languages to get these type of jobs, every job helps the tax base that one bit further.

    So no Irish can speak foreign languages then? From my girlfriends graduating class in Spainish and German most couldn't get jobs, there are plenty of takers for these sorts of jobs.

    Anywho the various extra taxes from having them here do help.


  • #10
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    themont85 wrote: »
    So no Irish can speak foreign languages then?

    Most, not none.


  • #11
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,573 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    75 jobs in donegal town by abbots (they used to employ 550 but that eventually went to costa rica)

    http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/donegalnews/Jobs-boost-confirmed-for-Donegal.6286249.jp

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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  • #12
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Funny thing about this. A friend of mine from colombia was offered a job in a call centre here (which she didn't take, she went home) which required her to speak spanish. Not really an issue for her for obvious reasons. The thing about it was, as part of the selection process she had to complete a few tests to measure her capability in English as aswell as Spanish. I don't hold test scores very highly at all but this means that she beat a good number of native English speakers at their own language skill.

    Of course, is this really surprising? I got an email yesterday from one of our office staff and I could hardly read it because it looked like a text message. So for anyone putting down Irish skills at European languages, take a step back. Our problems in linguistics are far deeper than iffy French or German.


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