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The tech industry in Ireland is booming and showing no signs of slowing down. Recent research suggests that 72,864 new job openings will become available in Ireland by 2022 for people with high-level IT skills.

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The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said that Ireland is well on its way to becoming the tech capital of Europe. Ireland is currently the number one destination in the world for foreign direct investment by US technology companies and home to nearly all the largest multinational tech companies. For example, it hosts nine of the top ten global software companies and US technology companies, the top three enterprise software companies in the world and four of the top five IT service companies.

December is the time of year when many people put their job search on hold and wind down in preparation for the festive season. However, a survey by the online executive career network ExecuNet stated that 69% of recruiters report placing as many, or more candidates in December compared to other months. The advice of 94% of the 500 hiring managers surveyed by Accounting Principals is that job-seekers should keep up their search right through to the end of the year. In fact, if you wait until January, you will face one of the toughest and most competitive months of the year.

In 2018, the world experienced several large-scale data breaches including Mariott Hotels having their guest information copied and stolen, affecting 500 million people and Google+ exposing the personal profile data of 52.5 million users. With the introduction of GDPR in May, 2019 will see more severe consequences for companies who do not handle their data in the appropriate manner.

New research conducted by CV Library found that 61.4% of under 18’s and 62.5% of those aged 18-24 are scared by the job seeking process. A major fear for job seekers is interviews with 9.4% avoiding turning up to an interview for fear of the unknown, 42.4% afraid of attending interviews and 39.9% are afraid of having to do an interview test or task. Therefore, Reperio compiled a list of top tips for job seekers who are preparing for interviews.