Trump resort seeks intern on JobBridge

Donald Trump’s Doonbeg Golf Club is advertising a JobBridge position seeking an intern for the resort’s stores department.

The position, which was advertised on May 2, requires excellent IT skills, as well as good organisational and interpersonal skills, according to the advertisement.

“The intern will gain practical experience in the operation of a stores department in a 5-star hotel & golf resort,” according to the JobBridge website.

Drumroll please, first of @realdonaldtrump's job opportunities in Clare beckons...€10/day + dole http://t.co/o5qFUUtUuo h/t @deniseodonoghue

— Brian Nolan (@BrianNolan1974) May 13, 2014

The successful candidate will receive €50 per week in addition to their current social welfare.

Yesterday, Trump said he can envisage employing twice as many people during the peak season, once Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland is fully operational.

The American billionaire also said the “comeback” he expects in Ireland in the coming years was crucial to his decision to invest in the West Clare resort.

“There will be more jobs than they’ve ever had before; more importantly, the people that have their jobs will keep them.

“Ireland is really ready for a big comeback. I know they’ve been through hell. I have a lot of friends in New York at the highest level of finance and they’ve their eye on Ireland,” the entrepreneur said on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke.

“I think it’s one of the great golf hotels there is, anywhere in Europe. You could never replicate it. I was really happy I was able to buy it.”

Trump, who is on a three-day visit to Ireland, outlined some of his plans for the club, which include the building of a ballroom and reshaping the course. He said the owners of the course had previously been unable to use the land appropriately due to concern for a microscopic snail.

“You have to be able to use the land appropriately. They thought [the snail] was just on the site [but] it’s all up and down the coast, it’s all over the world. [The environmentalists] want to see us build one of the greatest courses in the world,” he said.

Trump also said his failure to deliver the number of jobs he had promised at a course in Aberdeen, Scotland, was down to government decision-making. The Scottish government’s decision to build a major 11-turbine windfarm two miles from the resort led to Trump taking unsuccessful legal proceedings over the matter.