Irish Software Company in US Success Story

Candidate Manager, the number one provider of recruitment and restructuring software solutions in Ireland, today announced a major USA expansion plan by opening a further six offices in America in the next ten months and hiring 70 new staff. This move follows the unprecedented success of the Boston office which opened in October 2005.

Speaking at the Enterprise Ireland Office in New York, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern commented ìThe impressive growth of Candidate Manager in such a short time shows that there is huge potential for Irish companies in the US market who are willing to push boundaries by developing world class products and offer top quality serviceî

The USA expansion is being driven by Gary Flynn, Senior Vice President Candidate Manager USA. With a total investment of over US$10.5 million, Candidate Manager will open in Philadelphia on 1st July. This will be followed by offices in Atlanta on 1st August and Chicago on 1st September. The second phase of the expansion will see new offices in San Francisco, New York and Austin,Texas opening in the first quarter of 2007.

Since entering the US market in October 2005, Candidate Manager has won an impressive list of American clients including APC, Berkshire Bank, Cianbro Construction, Aspect Medical Devices, Infraredx, Pathfinder, Aviva International and Xilinx. The quality of the American clients list mirrors the equally blue chip client list in Ireland which includes: Vodafone, Siemens, ESB, Wyeth, Bristol Myers Squibb and Merrill Lynch.

Candidate Manager provides software that manages the recruitment process to enable companies hire people quicker, more efficiently and at a lower cost to help increase their profit. Delivered as an ASP (web based) solution, it can be implemented with minimal disruption and without large capital investment.