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Roisin Cullen

Dublin Bus hiring at Jobs Expo in Croke Park

Dublin Bus will be hiring at the upcoming Jobs Expo event in Croke Park.

The company are eager to add more people to their team having previously announced that they were looking for full-time clerical officers.

The career fair takes place on October 15 from 10am and 4pm. Admission is free with with tickets available here. Dublin Bus will be exhibiting and recruiting at the highly anticipated event.

Dublin Bus currently employs 3,810 people from 73 different countries. Their 2,825 drivers operate their fleet of 1040 buses.

Read more: Two new 24-hour night bus services on the way for Dublin

They had recently started a campaign to attract more female drivers with one woman opening up about her own career change. Barbara Shanahan from Marino left a job in digital marketing to start a career as a bus driver with Dublin Bus when the pandemic hit.

She said: "What happened was I saw this double-decker bus passing by beyond Griffith Avenue and it had a big sign on it saying ‘Looking for female bus drivers’.

"So it was like come have a go at driving the bus and I thought ‘Jeez, that looks like fun actually. I’m going to do that for the craic."

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