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Mar 09
2011
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Origina Survey finds that 50.9% of companies plan to hire new staff this year
Highly skilled employees are becoming increasingly important to companies who are aiming to find and retain skilled employees for 2011.Key Findings:
- 50.9% of companies surveyed are planning to hire this year
- 56.4% of organisations surveyed believe that finding skilled employees is extremely important
- Retaining skilled employees is extremely important to 71.4% of organisations surveyed
- 38.5% of respondents believe that training in their organisations will increase slightly over the next 18 months with a further 17.3% who believe there will be a definite increase.
Origina, a leading Irish IT services company, today published the results of a survey conducted with 57 senior management Irish executives, to discover if companies are hiring skilled employees, if they are re-skilling their current IT employees and what barriers exist against re-skilling IT employees.
Origina conducted the survey online in February 2011. Respondents were primarily in management positions in IT departments and from Irish organisations of all sizes and sectors.
The results indicate that lack of funding (53.1%) and lack of time to do training (57.1%) are the biggest barriers to Irish organisations training their staff. However, 37.5% respondents said that training was extremely important and a further 37.5% said it was important to their organisation.
56.4% of organisations believe that finding skilled employees is extremely important with a further 32.7% thinking it is important. It is important for employees to not only take advantage of any training their company provides but also tries to continuously up-skill themselves as organisations are looking for already skilled up employees and to make themselves more valuable in their existing jobs. 71.4% of respondents’ organisations consider it extremely important to retain skilled employees.
Origina’s commentary on the results:
Hilary O’Sullivan, Head of Training & Renewals in Origina commented, “Lack of time for businesses to complete training is a common problem in Ireland as our work lives get busier. We have identified this as an issue and now we work with our clients to create bespoke courses which are customised around the clients’ available time, and providing trainers’ onsite to reduce travel time helping to reduce overall course times.” “According to the survey, 75% of respondents said that training was either important or very important to their organisations. This is a positive outlook, Irish organisations are beginning to realise the importance of training to help their growth. It is terrific to see companies investing in people.”O’Sullivan concluded, “22.4% of respondents were interested in training in ITIL & Project Management. Origina is delighted to announce that we will be running a public course for ten people on ITIL &Prince. This is a new addition to our courses run in Ireland and subsequently we will be running this course at a highly competitive rate. The ten places will be allocated on a first come first served basis so contact Origina for further details.”
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Methodology:
Origina conducted the survey online in February 2011. Respondents were primarily in management positions in IT departments and from Irish organisations of all sizes and sectors. All interviews were carried out online.
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About Origina
For more information visit www.origina.com/training or call 01 2942300.
Press Contact
Sharon McGuireMarketing Executive
01 2942300
s.mcguire@origina.ie
