Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Minnow Recruits

From a tweet via @irishpublishing comes this most intriguing posting on Monster.com.

HMH is hiring!

All those synergies realized have now proven to be too much synergy for the Dublin office. Perhaps Mr. John Paulson has noticed that there are too many empty desks, or too much work not getting done.

You might think that Riverdeep had plenty of techies on hand to manage all that digital interfacing, but it looks like Mr. Paulson is ready for more.

If you currently reside in a city where Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt once employed you, or have lost your home due to a synergy realization, you might want to consider a move. Dublin is lovely, really. Of course you would be competing with thousands of Irish tech types who were all laid off when the Celtic Tiger expired, so it would be wise to have the job in hand before setting sail.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Barry O'C made a commitment to create 250 jobs in Dublin. The Irish news outlets confirmed that he was still committed to doing so, even as he was laying off the heart and soul of the U.S. operations. Looks like he's doing it now.

O hAnnrachainn said...

No surprise that he's favoring the Irish operation, since that was his home base. It usually happens that the acquired firm takes the brunt of the "synergies" and that's playing out in this case.