Tech recruitment firm Harvey Nash is to create 100 jobs throughout Ireland over the next two years.
The company said 40 of the roles would be directly with Harvey Nash Ireland in the areas of recruitment and support services.
The company’s consultancy division will account for the remaining 60 positions and will be spread across a number of core services, including life science, technology, finance and banking.
Harvey Nash Ireland expanded operations from Dublin into Cork in 2013 in response to the growing demand for skilled science and technology labour in the region.
The company's managing director Sonya Curley said the demand for skilled labour started out in Dublin and is now spreading to other cities. "We've responded by opening our Cork office and planning a Galway office," Ms Curley said.
Innovative projects
Ms Curley said Harvey Nash research showed that while an attractive pay packet was extremely important, the opportunity to work on innovative projects and a better work-life balance also played a major role in an applicant’s decision to work for a company.
“With no sign of the talent shortage easing, employers must become more creative with their job offerings,” she said.
Harvey Nash’s 2016 technology survey revealed that 35 per cent of tech professionals in Ireland are from overseas, indicating that employers are searching beyond the domestic market due to the shortage of domestic talent.
Meanwhile, Deloitte is to create 300 jobs in Northern Ireland as part of an ongoing investment programme that is expected to grow its local workforce to 1,000 by 2020.
Two years ago the professional services firm said it would create a further 338 jobs in Belfast over a five-year period as part of a £30 million (€39 million) investment project backed by £2.6 million in funding from Invest NI.
Recruitment plan
Deloitte’s UK chairman Nick Owen said yesterday that the company was well ahead of its original recruitment plan and currently employed 460 people with another 43 young people set to join through Deloitte’s BrightStart Apprenticeship Scheme in September.
Mr Owen said he was confident that by 2020 Deloitte in Belfast would be the firm’s largest office outside London.
Elsewhere, marketing and sales software firm Salesforce is set to expand its European workforce, adding 1,200 people over the next year. Although the company is not giving a breakdown of the number of people it will employ in specific countries, it is understood its Irish operation will gain a large number of new employees.
Salesforce currently employs about 700 people in Ireland where it has an office in Sandyford.
The company is already recruiting for business development executives, technical support staff, engineers, sales staff and account executives on its careers website. On Wednesday, the firm reported a 28 per cent increase in revenue in constant currency terms for the first quarter of its fiscal year, which ended on April 30th.
