AS PREDICTED, it has been a good year for those in computer and related disciplines, with major recruitment by Intel, an expansion in Sun Microsystems Irish operation and recruitment details still to come from Digital.
Meanwhile, JBA Software Products (Ireland) Ltd is recruiting 36 Irish graduates this year to train as software engineers in Dublin before placement worldwide. A numberate degree is required, with exposure to programming, although the language involved is irrelevant.
Successful applicants - deadline January 24th - will spend three to six months training in Dublin before joining a team working on a "live" project for six to eight weeks. Applications are available from college careers services or from Sandra Sherriff (tel: (01) 295 8832).
Asea Brown Boveri, a $34 billion engineering group with 210,000 employees worldwide, is looking for applications engineers for its Dundalk plant. Applicants should have a good degree in software/engineering, as well as some experience of systems engineering, neural networks, fuzzy logic and Oracel, TCP/ IP, Unix and C plus plus programming.
Applications should be submitted by January 24th to the personnel manager, ABB Industrial Systems Ltd, Finnabair Industrial Park, Dundalk, Co Louth (tel: (042)85100; fax: (042) 85124).
Finally, January 17th is the closing date for applications to the Irish Dairy Board, which is seeking a trainee to work in its information technology department. A degree in computer science or a related discipline is required and a CV should be sent to the personnel department, Irish Dairy Board, Grattan House, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2 (fax: 662 2941).
