Springboard for job-hunters looking to the cloud

“Hands up who here is job-hunting or expects to be job-hunting in the straightway six months,” careers expert Rowan Manahan asks the attendees at the college’s free cloud computing seminar.

Bit of a buzzword for the time being

“It [cloud computing] is a bit of a buzzword for the time being, nevertheless it has real relevance,” Michael Bradford from the college’s school of computing attempts to assure the crowd: “Major corporations are pumping money into it.”

The “Find Your Silver Lining” seminar was designed as a sampler for the college’s range of certificates and diplomas in web development, web technologies and cloud computing.

The entrepreneurial side of affairs

Representing the entrepreneurial side of affairs, Joe Haugh, a former IBM employee who founded product registration service ProductFul.com, notes the benefit of lean costs for small businesses working off a cloud infrastructure.

Jackie Flatley, Irish HR manager at multinational Citrix – which employs 150 people in cloud computing tech support in Dublin – tells attendees that 80 per cent of the people recruited to the company were found through LinkedIn.