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5 Key Questions for Strategic Planning
In this article Project Management advisor and lecturer, John McGrath puts forward five key questions for strategic planning that you
March 1, 2021
Grow your Career With Cora
There’s a lot of variety to the working day at Cora, given the excellent list of clients that we develop software for and provide project management expertise to.
Current Vacancies
If you are interested in working for Cora but see no relevant vacancy advertised above please submit your CV in strictest confidence by clicking here and one of our team will get back to you.
Three Continents, One Team
Although Cora has always operated with some remote team members the company went fully remote when the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic took hold.
Our adaption to remote working was swift and delivered many benefits to all team members.
This clip outlines some of those benefits along with details of the initiatives which help keep us connected.
Office Locations
Our headquarters are based in Carrick-on-Shannon, one of Ireland’s most picturesque towns, which straddles the River Shannon in County Leitrim. Leitrim is a stunningly beautiful county with numerous hidden gems and lesser-traveled countryside. Take a look at leitrimtourism.com for details of its unique natural beauty and see thedock.ie for a flavor of cultural activities. The town has an unrivalled reputation for traditional music sessions in its local bars where internationally renowned players are known to drop in unannounced.
It is also an ideal jumping off point to take in some of the best attractions in the northwest of Ireland, including mountain biking along wonderful country trails, boating on the Shannon Erne Waterway, which is Europe’s longest inland navigable waterway, enjoying Tullaghan beach, the dramatic northwest coastline and the beautiful Glencar waterfall.
A huge advantage is our convenient location, which is less than a two-hour drive from Dublin Airport and an hour from Knock Airport. There are good Train and Bus links to Dublin and Sligo and other areas in Ireland too.
UK Office
The Bedford office is a cornerstone of the Cora experience, as staff members regularly cross over from the UK office to our Irish headquarters and vice-versa. Bedford is an enchanting place to live and work. It’s a city with a rich history and bicycle friendly, and is well connected by road, rail and air so it’s easy to get to from anywhere. It’s got the advantage, too, that it’s close to London (It’s about an hour’s drive to the city), but far enough so that accommodation is reasonably priced.
The office itself is close to the city’s iconic bridge and located near the high street (so it’s ideally located for lunch-time shopping), but not on the busy high street. Part of the charm of the office is its multicultural mix – including English, Welsh, Irish and South Africans – which leads to a lot of banter!
US Office
Cora has established an Office in San Jose, California to liaise with our growing client base in North America.
The Best Talent
We take great pride in all the work we complete and the relationships we build with our clients.
We hope to hire and grow the best talent in our area. This is one of the four pillars to our company strategy. Everyone at Cora is encouraged to bring their own flair to their role and to contribute at the highest level they possibly can. Meaning that you can really see your own stamp on the success of the company, which is personally very rewarding.
Grow Your Career
Because we operate at the cutting-edge of technologies we are constantly innovating and learning. Career development and training needs vary between individuals so we allocate a training budget to each person and will work with them on a personalized career development plan. We allow people to transfer between teams and are passionate about cross-functional teams working on innovation projects. Whether you are starting out in your career, would like to try your hand at mentoring, finish exams, or want to manage a team, we can actively support you in your career aims.
We operate a two-week on-boarding program so that new recruits will hit the ground running. We allow people the time and space to learn our software and processes as we recognize that our technologies and methodologies require expertise. We have built up and are very mindful of keeping a company culture in which we all help each other.
Recruitment for our business graduate training program commences each summer for an autumn start date with us. Recruitment for our software development graduate training program commences each winter for a spring start.
Club Cora
Club Cora is our after work-hours social club which runs some cool events such as games nights, go-karting, comedy nights, table quizzes as well as the annual Christmas Party and our memorable Summer BBQs.
Events are usually held once a quarter. We also host online events which help bring our remote teams closer together.
Benefits
You will be rewarded with a competitive salary, as we believe that salaries should not be lower just because the role is located outside of the country’s capital city. We have the added benefits of life insurance and pension.
We encourage team events, run wellness initiatives and are committed to our local community and local charities. We recently had our local college complete a corporate social responsibility study on our company so that we can continually grow in this area. Opportunities to travel are available for those interested in seeing more of the world while also working to deliver for our clients.
An Award Winning Team
Cora takes great pride in our business results, and we’ve enjoyed remarkable success over the last couple of years on the awards circuit, winning several prizes for the innovation of our product, some imaginative collaboration with our clients and as a result of the strength of our company.
in February 2021 Cora was named as the recipient of the “Embedding a Culture of Workplace Wellbeing” Award (SME category) at this year’s prestigious human resources awards. Find out more here.
Diversity
The Cora diversity policy is built into our recruitment process and our workplace practices in an effort to increase our diversity, age and gender balance, mix of nationalities, employment of those with disabilities, and to check that we are growing our skillset as a company with people of various background, skills, hobbies and interests. At the moment, for example, 36% of our staff is female.
Our Behaviours
Here at Cora Systems, we have a dynamic and driven team who have a passion for client success. Our behaviours are what helps us to deliver the highest quality products and services and sets a standard for how we interact with our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders.
A Day in the Life at Cora
To get a feel for the variety of work our staff undertake, and for the company’s relaxed, inclusive working culture, don’t just take our word for it; play one of the videos on the left or read some of our blogs below including:
- Why leaving Dublin to work in Ireland’s North West makes sense: Read here
- Cora employee Laura Doherty writes about her route into the software industry and a typical working day with Cora Systems
See what our team members say and get an idea of a typical working day with Cora!
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Cora Systems Wins CIPD “Workplace Wellbeing” 2021 Award
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Powering Best-Practice Enterprise PPM
Cora is a worldwide leader in providing enterprise project and portfolio management solutions to global organizations and government agencies. We give users from project management to C-level the control, governance and insight to make better decisions. Every day, over €20 billion worth of projects are managed on our platform, supporting hundreds of thousands of users around the globe. We’re headquartered in Ireland, with regional offices in Dublin (Ireland) Bedford (London, UK) and San Jose (California, USA).
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