Eddie McGoldrick is looking to double his workforce at The Electric Storage Company in Belfast, but hiring a single vacancy can take up to six months.
After notice periods and training, “it could be an entire year before people are fully productive with us”, the chief executive and founder said. “We find that lead time hugely frustrating. We have interviews every week at the moment, and people [often] don’t turn up or decline the offer.”
The company, a tech platform that connects businesses to cheap renewable energy, is one of hundreds of start-ups struggling to hire people with tech expertise, particularly in software engineering, coding and machine learning.
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