I finished up my previous system admin role at the Bank of New York at the end of July. I had a good time working there but I wanted to do something more challenging. I moved back home to Cork and began my search for a position in development.
I focused on a lot of Internet Marketing based roles as that’s what I’m most interested in doing. Unfortunately there aren’t that many positions available in Online Marketing within Ireland. I applied for a good few roles, I heard back from some, heard nothing from most, had a single interview and I was called for another interview last week (which I choose not to attend).
Early last week I began to broaden my search for employment. I started looking at Business Analyst roles and the like. I was called for an interview with Apple in Cork, which I’m sure would have been very interesting, but I turned down the interview because I was offered a job pretty much out of the blue by a start-up based in Dublin.
Just over a month ago I posted about signing up to Facebook. This article has strangely brought me some good luck. Firstly, I was contacted by a journalist from the Irish Independent who was writing a piece about Facebook’s popularity in Ireland (managed to get my mug in the papers!) and secondly, I was contacted by the Director of a Dublin based social network who were looking to hire a Product Developer for their yet to be released website. The Director sent me an email asking if I would be interested in being interviewed for a position, I said yes, and I was offered the position on the day of the interview.
You never know who might stumble across your site from Google!
The product I’m helping to develop is a very interesting concept and is gaining a lot of attention from those who are being contacted about supporting it. It’s in closed beta at the moment but once it goes to live beta, I will have a few invites to send out. I’ll post about that later (Oct/Nov).
So now I’m back in sunny Dublin, looking for a place to live again. When I was last living here, I must have looked at approximately 40 places to live. August is a bad time to start work in Dublin 
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14 responses so far ↓
1 Dave Jeffery // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Congrats on the new job Cormac and good luck finding a place to live. Sounds like a very exciting time for you!
2 smemon // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Congrats on the new job, sounds exciting
3 Cormac Moylan // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Cheers Dave.
This first week has been pretty cool. It’s great to have finally got into development. I’m going to learn a lot more in this role than what I could do in any IT position.
And it’s all bout’ the learning.
4 Robin Blandford // Aug 30, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Can you tell us either Social Net name or Start Up name?
5 Ken // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Congratulations on the new job Cormac. That wasn’t you I saw walking beside Grand Canal Dock at about 6.30pm on Tuesday night? I saw your mug shuffling by me and I thought “Nah… couldn’t be…”
6 Cormac Moylan // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Ken, that would be me alright. Good spot. I’m living just off Baggot Street for the mean time. I’m staying in the bosses old house till I find somewhere permanent. It’s a nice little place in D4
Robin, can’t say much about the site as I signed a non-disclosure agreement but the site is going to do for charities and non-profit organistations what myspace has done for bands. It’s a real worth while cause.
7 Ken // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:50 pm
ROFLMAO! I thought it was you. Now that I know you don’t have a doppleganger, next time I’ll say hi and you can buy me a pint Mr. Newjob.
8 louie // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:56 pm
congrats with the new job. Hope you found a place to bunk in.
9 paul // Aug 31, 2007 at 7:26 am
great news about the job, I look forward to hearing more about this startup !
10 Niall Doherty // Aug 31, 2007 at 10:03 am
Congrats on the new job, sir. Looking forward to seeing your work.
11 Cormac Moylan // Aug 31, 2007 at 10:24 am
Cheers Louie, Paul, Niall.
12 David Doran // Aug 31, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Great Congrats Cormac, sounds like a great opportunity.
13 Alex Leonard // Aug 31, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Looking forward to hearing about it as well. Dublin is a hard place to escape from sometimes.
So far I have done reasonably well (having moved up to Leitrim about 18 months ago), but each time I go down to Dublin I have the intention of only staying there for a day or two and I often get sucked in for the best part of a week.
The fact that my girlfriend lives there is probably something to do with it..
14 Michele // Sep 1, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Cormac
Congrats!
I think I know which company it is, as they also contacted a certain Polish person ….
Michele
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