Opening doors

FROM recognisable names such as Amazon, EMC and Novartis to small but expanding Irish companies, job seekers had plenty of people to meet at specialist recruitment fairs in the past fortnight.

The last of three events was held in Cork, where students and graduates of the Government-funded Springboard courses mixed with those who have availed of back-to-education payments from the Department of Social Protection.

The idea was to try and match up companies with vacancies and job seekers with hopes of work.