“The programme has raised our profile as an employer of choice within Ireland and has brought top ICT students in to SAP as part of our internship programme. We’re then able to hire them as permanent employees after they finish their studies.”
The university programme has raised our profile as an employer of choice within Ireland and has brought top ICT students in to SAP as part of our internship programme. We’re then able to hire them as permanent employees after they finish their studies, Cormac Watters, SAP
“Thanks to this we’ve not had difficulties attracting suitable candidates to most of our roles although there are specific cases that have required more searching.”
A problem for SAP is the regularity with which it says it creates roles that can be hard to fill, as a consequence of the company’s growth.
“We often create new roles that are either not yet in existence or not very plentiful in the marketplace at the levels of experience that we need and in those kinds of situations, we do end up taking longer to fill the role from a recruiting perspective.”
“But the ICT space is growing all the time. We take pride in being innovators and expanding our business, so when it comes to recruitment, we are always thinking ahead to not just our immediate needs but what our needs may be in five, 10, or 15 year’s time.”
Market quirk
Meanwhile, PFH group’s business development and recruitment manager Aoife Moloney said that while it has experienced difficulties with finding suitably qualified candidates, she thinks that this is really just a quirk of the market.
“We have recently experienced difficulty in attracting suitably qualified ICT staff but I think that can be put down to the growth in the ICT market in general. That has resulted in a requirement for more ICT trained and experienced staff, so everyone is in the same boat,” she said.
“Specialised and experienced engineers are proving particularly hard to find, such as database analysts. Where we have requirements for very experienced engineers, we naturally cannot just go to the universities for raw recruits because we need people with experience that has been built up taking part in large projects.”
Many of this kind of candidate has worked abroad and according to Moloney enticing them to Ireland can be difficult.
“There aren’t great support services for families for here. For example, we find that a lot of experienced engineers are at a time in their lives when they are raising their own families and the support services around them must equal their expectations,” she said.
Specialised and experienced engineers are proving particularly hard to find, such as database analysts. Where we have requirements for very experienced engineers, we naturally cannot just go to the universities for raw recruits because we need people with experience that has been built up taking part in large projects, Aoife Moloney, PFH Group
“Dublin is an expensive place to live but so far that doesn’t seem to be a huge factor in attracting staff. If they are worth it, they will come to Dublin or any other urban area. In general though, we would like to see more investment in education and infrastructure in the IT industry. This has to happen to help prevent the problem getting worse and to provide for future demand.”
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