The Tuesday Seminar series continues this week with a presentation on Winning Interview Techniques. Room QG27 from 1.00-2.00 on Tuesday 13th April 2010.

  Dear Student

I am a Careers Consultant and have worked in partnership with the Careers Services of many third level institutions in Ireland giving workshops to students on all areas of Career Management including Networking and Active Job Search, CVs and Interviews. I am currently doing research on What Graduates Want from Their Employers for an upcoming GradIreland presentation to employers. I have compiled a 12 question survey which will take approx 4 minutes to complete. I would be very grateful if you can complete the survey - this is your chance to let employers know what you think!

Please click on the link below to complete the survey. All responses will be anonymous. Please complete the survey ASAP or latest by FRIDAY APRIL 16th.

Thanks in advance, Sinead English
http://surveys.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1666335&rd=49592384

  WAM has a number of great opportunities for graduates with disabilities/specific learning difficulties in Abbott Ireland, Clonmel, Tipperary. The deadline date for receipt of applications is next Monday, 12th April at 5.00pm.

Work Placements are paid, mentored, for six months and across a number of areas, including Engineering, HR, IT, and Training. Placements will start in July.

For more information contact Fiona Ring, WAM Project Worker - fiona.ring@ahead.ie www.ahead.ie

  East Point Business Park, one of Ireland's most established office parks is hosting a jobs fair on Friday the 16th of April 2010.

Leading multinational companies will be recruiting for 175 new roles in IT, sales, telecommunications, pharmaceutical services and HR consultancy.

For more information contact Ceire on 855 1595 or email ceire@eastpoint.ie

  Leap is Fidelity Investments’ exciting training and development program for new IT graduates. The program is designed to accelerate the development of recent IT graduates to become best-in-class software developers with the potential to become Fidelity's future technology leaders. Participants in the program will experience an enriched on-boarding process followed by specific technology, business and professional skills training. The program starts in September 2010 in Galway.

Leap offers classroom training in software development followed by a technical project assignment. Participants will design, develop and test innovative solutions core to the firm's ability to provide the best products and services to their customers. Upon completion of the 6 month program, associates will be placed in dynamic roles in software development across Fidelity's diverse technology project teams in Galway and Dublin.

Participants will acquire knowledge and experience in the areas of:
• Software Development Life-Cycle - focused on agile, systems analysis, design, development, testing and support of software applications
• OO Development using UML, Java/J2EE, C++ and XML
• Web application development using HTTP server, Web Services and Open Source technologies (Linux, Struts, Spring MVC, Hibernate and iBatis ORM)
• RIA, Ajax, Web Services, JSON, XML, Dojo
• Flex and Flash development
• Database creation, development, and data manipulation using SQL and PL/SQL (Oracle RDBMS)
• Quality Assurance - Unit Testing and System Integration Testing
• Security - Information Security, Secure Application Development

Education and Experience
• BS degree in Computer Science/Computer and/or Systems Engineering or Information Technology
• Prior technology-related internship experience is preferred
• Hands-on technical experience in application development, databases and/or networking
• Interest in financial services industry

Skills and Knowledge
• Able to break down and creatively solve problems
• Flexible and adaptable at applying skills to different situations
• Eager to learn and continuously improve
• Proactively seeks out new challenges
• Good listener and collaborator
• Effectively copes with ambiguity
• Attention to detail
• Understanding Software Development Lifecycle & OO programming concepts (Java, C++ or C#)
• Basic Java language skills + foundations of OO design
• Understanding of Relational Databases
• Experience with relational DB access, SOAP or web services in Java a plus

To Apply, visit www.fidelityinvestments.ie or email a CV to FidelityIrelandLeap@fmr.com

  Cruz Recruitment, a leading software/technology Company requires a number of Financial Software Consultants. The role is 70% technical and 30% Business/Consultancy. The Company provides full training and an excellent salary and benefits package. They also work with their employees to ensure an excellent career path is put into place for them, after joining. This role might suit students with a BSc ini Quantitative Finance as well as a Pure Finance Degree. Aside from that, Computer Science, Maths, Physics and Engineering Graduates are also eligible to apply once they meet the required academic level required.

For further details or to apply for this position, contact Noeleen McKenna at CRUZ Recruitment on 01 8477278 or email noeleen.mckenna@cruz.ie

  There will be an event titled "Experience Japan" in Farmleigh on Sunday 11th April between 12.00pm and 4.00pm. Many different activities are planned. Our DCU Japanese Society is heavily involved in the event. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. It will be a family friendly event.

Among the events are :-
- Taiko drum performances
- Martial arts demonstrations
- Fusion of Japanese Shakuhachi flute music and the Irish harp
- Origami and taiko drum workshops for children
- Japanese food stands

Further details on the events on:- www.farmleigh.ie www.dublin.ie

  Invent’s Seminar Series will feature Mr. Tom Shinkwin - Enterprise Equity Venture Capital Group.

This seminar will take place on Wednesday 14th April 2010 in Invent DCU at 11am.

If you wish to register for this event please click this link:
www.dcu.ie/invent/enterprise_equity_book.shtml

For more information: www.dcu.ie/invent/events.shtml

  The Ireland China Association are holding an afternoon Event themed 'Education and China’ aiming to highlight the potential opportunities for companies, students and colleges dealing with China:
- To identify opportunities for Graduates from international Colleges or University programs,
- And to get feedback from Irish companies on working with Irish/Chinese graduates

Together with Independent Colleges and UCD Confucius Institute, the Ireland China Association will have speakers from China based Irish Employers, Chinese Professionals and from the Chinese Embassy Education section on this sectors importance to both countries. They will follow the talks with general networking, where you will have the opportunity to get one-to-one advice from the experts and to network with local business people. ICA member companies have the option to have a stand and canvass for candidates for their “China business.”

The afternoon event will be held on Thursday 15th April, at Independent Colleges, Dawson Street, Dublin, from 14:00-17:00. If you would like to attend please RSVP ASAP to Siobhan McKenna at info@irelandchina.org or +353 1 661 2182 (ext.3). This event is free for members and students. Non-members will be charged €25, students at €10 rate.