Margaret McCabe runs the agency which recruits all public jobs – and insists there is no civil service ‘fit’
Margaret McCabe, CEO of Public Jobs. Photo: Gerry Mooney
When Margaret McCabe joined the civil service, getting a job mattered more to her and most young people than what that job might actually involve. At the time, it was common for teenagers to join the public sector straight from school at as young as 16. Only a few came in at a slightly older age from university
The Leitrim native won a place as a clerical assistant, the bottom rung of the ladder, and moved to Dublin in 1979.
