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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
105 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 December 2010
Employment effect (start)
13 December 2010
Foreseen end date
13 December 2013
Description
Computer multinational Hewlett Packard has announced 105 new jobs at its operation in County Galway. More than 70 of the new jobs are to be filled immediately with the remainder to be phased in over the next three years. The highly-skilled jobs will be based within the company's global IT division in Galway, which supports HP's Enterprise Business unit. The new positions are supported by IDA Ireland. All of the jobs are described as technical and will be in the areas of data architecture, application development and software engineering.
Sources
13 December 2010: RTE
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Hewlett Packard, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 71310, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71310.
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