“We’re happy to answer any questions at all but the level of interest in the job has been really good too,” he says. “It’s a changed world, it’s become very small and you meet a lot of people in their teenage years already thinking of leaving.Séan O’Donoghue from Midland Steel at the Laois jobs fair
“Also, we get to talk to younger people about what their expectations are around careers, remuneration … Covid has had a massive impact on people’s expectations in terms of remote working, for instance.” The company is expanding substantially, with a new plant to open nearby next year, but even a repeat of the two staff they hired at this event last year would, he says, be “a great result,” especially if they were in the more niche engineering roles.