Youth training scheme seeks to fill IT vacancies

Microsoft is running a youth training scheme across Ireland, in an effort to fill vacancies in its business and those of its partners.

Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald, Peter Davitt, chief executive of Fit, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Youth2Work Ambassador Bernard Dunne; and Cathriona Hallahan, managing director, Microsoft Ireland, visiting Collinstown Community College.

Microsoft is running a youth training scheme across Ireland, in an effort to fill vacancies in its business and those of its partners.

The Youth2Work scheme, which is being organised by Microsoft and IT employment group Fit, is running a series of events across Ireland over the summer.

Cathriona Hallahan, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, told *The Sunday Business Post* that the project was in direct response to the IT sector's struggle to ...