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Great Recruitment Advertising Workshop event organised by Stephen Harrington Recruitment Manager: Sales | Marketing | Multi-Lingual @ Allen Recruitment. Here is the original announcement: When and Where: Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4 – Vavasour Suite, registration at main reception. Wednesday 24th April, from 8.45 to 11.30am Enter via entrance A on Lansdowne Road Car park [...]

Here is a new job for the Recruitment Consultant advertised by the SAON Group (IrisJobs.ie): Resourcer/Recruitment Consultant   Saongroup operates online recruitment websites for recruiters and career seekers across four continents – Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas – and websites live in 29 countries. The Group also includes Candidate Manager, a leading provider of [...]

My Adecco goodies arrived in the post today thanks to the good people of Adecco Ireland. Thanks guys, will get my “iPhone 6″ safe in it!

How to make sense of the LinkedIn Skills Endorsements? LinkedIn Skills Endorsements is not the first time the Skills have been implemented as a part of a personal LinkedIn Profile. Some iterations had a self-scoring of out to 5 or 10 skills. Then just a pure 50 word skills. The current way the skills are [...]

An interesting job post I Stumbled Upon,… (not really, I saw it on Mashable). It is for a Pope. Is it a good job spec? I’ll let you be the judge of it yourself:

In the video below David McWilliams talks about the Irish economists (and the average punters!). He talks how we humans make decisions completely irrationally. Both the masses and the professionals – Economists. It just stuck me how applicable is this to the Recruitment Industry. Regardless of all the recruitment processes we have implemented the decision [...]

The LinkedIn haven’t really updated the Profile section for far too long time. It become a bit archaic in fact, so a new profile is really welcome. It is far easier to read and more importantly scan, as we consume the web sites. It also tells you far more about the person than the any [...]

With JobBridge in the news again I couldn’t resist not to clearly put myself in the ranks of those who are against it. Not like the Socialist Pary members like Paul Murphy MEP who writes JobBridge to nowhere! (I like the article!), but quite close to it. The internship scheme is a good idea and [...]

What is recruitment conference? We all know the answer to that. It is a large meeting where a number of people (one by one) speak to the group. There are short breaks in between speakers, for the people get a coffee and network.   Who comes to the conference? Speakers – are people presenting. Sales [...]

JobsBoard.ie will let you wind the page 3 times faster than Irish Jobs site! There is plenty of job sites in Ireland. Each ofhtem has plenty of jobs. Most of the jobs are the same on the job sites. So what site to choose? Perhaps the one with the most jobs? Perhaps the one you [...]

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In the Links are the currency on the web we looked at the total number of links no the web that the Link Count tool from SEOmoz would show for our 20 recruitment agency web sites. But not all the links are equal. The more I think about it, it would be fair to say [...]

Imagine the following scenario: First in Google for your keyword! Your web site has one page, and the site is with that page linked first for your main keyword. One would say this is the search engine optimisation done very well. The site is first for its keyword. What else can one ask for? First [...]

Search engine optimisation is in essence a huge amount of statistical analysis and a lot of trials and errors. There is not book about it, since by the time it gets printed it is completely outdated. There are two SEO Rules: Content is King Links are the currency on the web Nothing else matters as [...]

After ranking the Irish recruitment agency web sites based on the Google PageRank and less known SEOmoz rank here is the one most marketers are familiar with: Alexa. What Alexa does exactly and how does it do it was a topic of a debate from the day Alexa have started publishing the traffic ranking scores. [...]