Invest NI scheme gives business boost to Blue Zinc
Invest NI’s Boosting Business programme is creating over 50 jobs in companies across Northern Ireland. To date 18 firms have been able to boost their workforces by over 25 through the programme which provides mentoring support to help strengthen in-house management teams. The latest company to benefit is Blue Zinc IT Ltd in Belfast which...
Go south to build
New Zealand is looking to fill thousands of job vacancies in the construction sector, using skilled migrants from GB and Northern Ireland. Paul Arthur, director of migration experts The Emigration Group said: “Industry experts in New Zealand are predicting that they will need more than 23,000 construction workers by mid to late 2013. New...
Firm shows the Love for IT with new gongs
Specialist recruitment firm Lucas Love is launching a new award recognising excellence in the IT field in Northern Ireland. IT’s All Happening, awarding outstanding contribution to the IT sector will reward employees at all levels of an organisation who have contributed to the development and deployment of innovative IT systems improving business operations or enhancing...
Innovate or Die
Entrepreneurship isn’t just for new businesses – it is essential to help established companies stay ahead of the competition, local employers were told this week at Queen’s University. They were attending the InterTradeIreland Innovation Lecture at Queen’s University, delivered by Hanadi Jabado, Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge. She said: “Established businesses can...
Skills project hailed as 70 jobs created
Northern Ireland’s Assured Skills Programme – which can fund up to £2m per project – is paying dividends through job creation, according to Department of Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry. He was speaking following the recent announcement of 70 new posts in financial services sector here. Mr Farry said: “My Department’s Assured Skills...
IT’s All Happening in NI
Historically, Northern Ireland had been an industrial economy focusing on areas such as shipbuilding and textiles. However the economy is evolving and emphasis is now on growing and developing sectors such as IT, financial services, legal services, renewables and tourism. In IT, Northern Ireland has a growing number of software development centres, shared service...
Firm has big plans for its new recruits
A Belfast-based planning consultancy is marking its first anniversary by growing its workforce and securing multi-million pound projects. Clyde Shanks, has won a range of major residential and commercial contracts, including preparing Northern Ireland’s largest biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) plant for planning – a £30million facility at Lisahally Port. The company has also just helped Gaelectric to...
Teachers plan a great boost for education
CHILDREN’S future employability can only improve thanks to the teaching jobs boost unveiled by the Executive, it has been claimed. Steven Savage, a P7 teacher at Cairnshill Primary School in Belfast, was speaking following news this week that six signature projects worth £26m will create more than 200 jobs across Northern Ireland for recent...
Travel firm on cloud nine after award
A leading Belfast travel management business has won an award for its innovative family friendly policies in the workplace. Â Selective Travel, which employs almost 50 people won the Small to Medium Enterprise of the Year Award at the Childcare Works Awards 2012. The event, organised by the Employers for Childcare Charitable Group, aims...
Volunteering gives Emma and Nikita a Head Start
When young people participate in the decisions which affect them it gives them employable skills for the future, according to the Commissioner for Children and Young People. Patricia Lewsley-Mooney was speaking in the run up to the closing date for entries to the 2013 Participation Awards (October 19) which celebrate government and public organisations...