Council recruit 139 new staff while 738 candidates interviewed for posts

SOUTH Dublin County Council recruited 139 new staff in 2023, according to it’s corporate annual progress report.

According to the report, there was 86 promotions during the year at the local authority through 58 competitions held, 1,430 applications processed, 61 interviews over 148 days and 736 candidates interviewed while the WAM Graduate Programme

(Willing Able Mentoring) was supported in partnership with AHEAD.

Workforce planning in the organisation directly informs the development of the Council’s People Strategy and the Learning and Development Strategy.

There was almost 400 staff training and development events in 2023.

Meanwhile, programmes were arranged including 293 training courses plus various mentoring and coaching programmes, conference attendance and the Scheme of Assistance for formal education courses.

A new Induction Programme was launched in June to support better onboarding of new employees.

A General Operative Traineeship programme was developed in collaboration with the Educational Training Board initiative offering 18–23 year-olds a real pathway to a career and provides training and experience in various operational roles.

SDCC say they continue to develop partnerships with the universities in the Dublin region, working with them to promote South Dublin County Council as an “employer of choice” and to support students in gaining practical and meaningful work experience.

This is done via internship programmes across Business, Landscape Architecture, Planning and Communications disciplines, with students coming from TU Dublin and UCD.