Recruitment company Hays says it is hiring 40 graduates from Irish universities this year to work in its offices in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.
The company says the recruitment campaign is aimed at meeting what it describes as 'an unprecedented increase' in demand for professional positions.
Hays says a surge in new job offers has been evident for the past number of months and is expected to be sustained throughout 2011.
It expects a 40% increase in the number of positions it places in 2011 compared with 2010. Hays says the main factor in the rise is increased activity among multi-national companies and indigenous exporting firms.
