Careers fair ‘more like an emigration expo’

Visitors to Blanchardstown’s retail mecca yesterday had a very different type of shopping list in their hands. At the top of it was ‘jobs’.

Joan Burton, the social protection minister, was on hand at the centre’s employment and advice fair where up to 800 jobs were up for grabs with employers from Penneys to Paypal and eBay to Hewlett Packard.

Keywords International, a Leopardstown-based firm that effectively translates computer games for the big manufacturers, was offering jobs to games testers with a pay rate of up to €11 an hour, depending on experience.