23/02/2015

ESB To Recruit 300 New Apprentices

300 new apprentices are to be recruited over the next five years as part of a large-scale development and recruitment programme announced by ESB.

Under the new initiative, announced this morning at the ESB network training centre in Portlaoise, apprentices will complete 23 weeks of in-house training with ESB alongside some 42 weeks to be spent with Solas and the IT colleges.

(MH/CD)

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