Hireland reaches 2,500 job pledges after a month
21.02.2012
The ‘Hireland’ initiative launched last month has already received over 2,500 job pledges from businesses all over the country – half of its six-month target.
Hireland is a volunteer, not-for-profit group that has developed a national communications initiative to encourage employers to hire one of the thousands of skilled people who are currently out of work.
So far 589 companies have pledged jobs across a range of sectors from software design and development to engineering and pharmaceuticals to sales, marketing and retail and hotel, hospitality and sports leisure.
In addition, people are being taken on swiftly following pledges, with 150 having started jobs pledged already. These are in companies such as ely Winebar, Hauste Group, Spirit Motor Group and Murex Advanced Technologies.
Co-founder of Hireland Lucy Masterson was on RTE’s The Frontline last night. She said afterwards: “We cannot get over the immense goodwill and positivity that Hireland is generating. We are barely one month in and we have already passed the halfway point in terms of pledges.”
Hireland has already inspired a sister initiative in the US, UhireUS, which was announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in September 2011.