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Chris Radburn

Major jobs boost for Dublin as 700 new jobs announced in IT and manufacturing

Cork firm Voxpro, LinkedIn and West Pharmaceuticals have announced the roles.

Updated 7.54am

THREE FIRMS HAVE announced 700 jobs for Dublin, including 600 in the city’s IT hub.

Voxpro, a Cork-headquartered company is recruiting 400 people at a new office in the Point Village in the city’s docklands. It will bring its total number of employees in Ireland to 2,000 – with plans to expand to 3,000.

The firm, which was founded by husband and wife team Dan and Linda Kiely, provides customer, sales and technical support services to technology firms.

“After an exceptional year of growth for Voxpro, we are very pleased to open this new, state of the art base in Dublin,” Dan Kiely said in a statement.

We work closely with some of the best known tech companies in the world to deliver exceptional and beautiful customer experiences.

Recruitment website LinekedIn will create a further 200 jobs in its Dublin headquarters, it has announced. The announcement of the roles came after a meeting between its CEO Jeff Weiner and Taoiseach Enda Kenny last night.

Separately, West Pharmaceutical Services is to create 100 jobs at its Mulhuddart facility.

The Pennsylvania firm is expanding its contract manufacturing plant in west Dublin, and will add the jobs over the next five years.

The company makes packaging components and delivery systems for injectable drugs and healthcare products. It said its expansion is in response to customer demand for medical devices – particularly to combat diabetes.

West is also growing its proprietary product business in Waterford, where it previously announced the construction of a centre of excellence for its elastomeric sheeting and injectable component product lines.

That plant is expected to begin commercial operations in 2018.

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LinkedIn

Established in Ireland in 2010 with just three employees, LinkedIn now has 1,000 employees across product lines and supports over 50 markets, from the UK to South Africa.

Under the announcement, 200 additional roles will be created in the regions of sales and sales support, customer operations, and engineering.

Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, said the jobs highlight Ireland’s importance to the company.

“At LinkedIn, we’re continuing to invest in the people and infrastructure required to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce,” he said.

Ireland has proven to be a very strategic location for us to headquarter our EMEA operations, and we look forward to growing our footprint in Ireland by expanding our already 1000-person team with another 200 employees.

The announcement comes ahead of the completion of LinkedIn’s EMEA HQ at Wilton Place, with construction set to finish in 2017.

The new office space includes an in-house gym, 300 bicycle parking spots, barista stations and a music room.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the jobs were good news for the government’s jobs plan.

He said:

Today’s announcement is further demonstration that our skilled people are highly attractive to the world’s leading technology firms.

“We have worked hard to create a positive business environment for companies like LinkedIn who are investing here because of our open economy, skilled people, and our strong relationship with Europe and progressive society which makes Ireland an attractive place for people to work and live.”

With reporting from Paul Hosford.

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    Mute HOTBank
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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:12 AM

    More good news for the economy!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:18 AM

    Yeah just wait for all the negative comments to come..

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    Mute Adrian
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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:07 AM

    Just beware. Waiting now for the accompanying job losses announcement.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:06 AM

    Where are they going to live?

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:09 AM
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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:20 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: And you save lot of time / money on commuting !!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:22 AM

    Where’s Wally, more elitist, capitalist multinational companies coming to our island and exploiting the workers with jobs and a salary every month. Would the AAA not try and block this from happening. Solidarity for the working class.

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    Mute selfsustainable
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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:40 AM

    Wally’s putting up the Christmas Tree.

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    Mute Meanderingsz
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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:32 AM

    Good News, but the journal are very generous calling them ‘IT’ jobs, the vast majority of the jobs are with voxpro, who provide multilingual and technical call centre services for companies that outsource such jobs.

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    Mute conriel
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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:35 AM

    Great news and and the very best to those who get a job, It would be good news also if only some of the jobs were elsewhere in this small country, where its cheaper to get a house and live in general.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:36 AM

    While this is good news, it’s also a little worrying that Facebook created 500 new software engineering jobs in London rather than their European HQ in Dublin. They are the meaty techie jobs, and no doubt Dublin was considered. Would love to see their analysis of Dublin vs London and why they went for London. Shooting ourselves in the foot with our lack of housing, offices, and high marginal tax rates to pay off the public sector and welfare recipients.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 3:54 PM

    @Fred Johnson: I think with the likes of Facebook, Google etc most of their engineering is done elsewhere. They are tech companies but the types of work their “HQ” does in Dublin is not technical

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    Nov 29th 2016, 4:50 PM

    @Carl Nolan:

    I know, but if we had the housing, the office space and the right tax regime, don’t you think we could be attracting that kind of work?

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    Mute cortisola
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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:18 PM

    Tech jobs require serious tech resources – knowledge, education, training, time and money – we don’t have it. And we still manage to convince a lot of tech companies to come here!! How? Because some same important virtues of people in Ireland – social skills, marketing and management talents. In modern world it is much more important.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:50 AM

    This is very bad news for the left. how are aaa/pbp going to increase their rating above 4% with people getting jobs.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:26 AM

    Great news! You do however have to wonder how much effort the gov. puts into decentralising though when these companies come-a-calling…traffic/housing is far from ideal at the moment in the cities. Plenty of skilled workers and housing in the forgotten midlands/south east as an example.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:18 AM

    @Chris Rea: Government has no say whatsoever as to where these companies locate. None. They are private companies. Companies like this move to where the best opportunities and the best synergies are for them. Those locations are invariably cities. Scale is what determines choice in such circumstances as scale offers greater opportunities including the chance to poach workers from other companies which is a fact of life. The choice is Dublin, another city in Ireland or overseas. That’s it.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:17 AM

    I want the scratcher instead

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:19 AM

    Good news story, although you would wonder what the gov actually did to help create those jobs that they can lay claim to

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:22 AM

    Allow the companies to pay little or no tax while the employees foot the bill for running the country and get told how lucky they are to have a job.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:28 AM

    @The Guru:
    Better off on the dole?….

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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:01 AM

    You say that as if it’s the only viable alternative which of course is not the case.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:46 AM

    @SkylineSi: the govt had absolutely nothing to do with these or most other jobs set up here if they did they wouldnt be set up in dublin they are just a photo opp for kenny and co gives the impression he ha some idea of what he `s doing….

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    Nov 29th 2016, 10:51 AM

    @Peter donnelly: exactly my point :-)

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:34 AM

    So LinkedIn are installing 300 bicycle parking slots in their new building, I just hope they are also paying their staff well enough to afford the rental fees within cycling distance of their offices.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:02 AM

    @Zx5vZulB: I know a few people there and they are well looked after.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:46 AM

    As usual, blasted Dublin.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:38 AM

    Great news… so now where are you going to live punk? just don’t look on this sister site Daft.ie today, you might think twice of applying. Monthly rent rates of what once was are now creeping up to weekly!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 11:02 AM

    @Paudi Onail: There’s a good few houses out on the M2 and M3 motorway. No more than 30 min commute. Not too shabby.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 11:43 AM

    Great to hear about more jobs but i can’t personally remember the last time i heard or read about a factory opening that actually produces goods. Not everyone is suited to work in IT or computer sector. I’d hazard a guess not a single long term dole claimant will fill one of these positions.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 3:57 PM

    @John Henry: That’s because it’s the 21st century. Most factories was long since been moved to the likes of China. People just need to keep up with the times.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 11:48 AM

    Fantastic news for all Eastern European inmigrants

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    Nov 29th 2016, 12:42 PM

    @Daithi De Roiste:

    With the thought process behind that post I expect that most Eastern European immigrants will be well ahead of you in the queue with a CV that these companies would be interested in.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 2:21 PM

    @nick allen off you go with ypur CV so and see how you go! Not far i bet!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 3:58 PM

    @Daithi De Roiste: I’d hire an Eastern European immigrant over someone with your attitude any day of the week.

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    Nov 29th 2016, 4:35 PM

    @carl Nolan oh Sorry Carl, I didn’t know you were hiring, any chance of a job???

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    Nov 29th 2016, 4:40 PM
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    Nov 29th 2016, 4:53 PM

    Yeah just as i thought, your a nobody!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:30 PM

    @Daithi De Roiste, you bully!!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 6:39 PM

    @cortisola who me? I made a comment abd i got trolled now i’m the bully?? Good one!

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    Nov 29th 2016, 8:38 AM

    Ye loads of jobs money sh!t .

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    Nov 29th 2016, 9:53 AM

    This Should bring unemployment down below 15% anyway .

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    Dec 9th 2016, 1:55 PM

    @AAA Wally.
    Another 700 quality jobs created in the private sector.
    That’s 700 taxpayers plus corporation tax. That’s how capitalism works.
    How many jobs have AAA/PBP & their supporters created ?

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    Nov 29th 2016, 11:34 PM

    IT will come and it will go, what we need here is MANUFACTURING JOBS…

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