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There is no doubt that the market has improved on the jobs front. Of course, we are talking an improvement from the drastic situation of 2009, to an improvement in 2010 and on into 2011. The best thing to improve a jobs market is confidence. Confidence means that people are optimistically looking to the future [...]

Morgan McKinley Ireland Salary Survey 2012 Survey finds more than half of Irish professionals have a more positive business outlook for 2012 compared to 2011 Thursday, 5th January 2011 – Morgan McKinley has today released its latest Ireland Salary Survey which offers insights into business confidence, remuneration and human resources trends for professionals working in [...]

After Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter setting up in Dublin, the global job scraping site Indeed is setting up its European HQ on our soil. The first interviews will be held in the second half of January by their US staff (VP level) and the UK based Indeed staff. About Indeed from their own web [...]

Jobs Board got shortlisted for the Irish executives Inspire Ireland 2011 Award. 7 of us got shortlisted and one after another we presented our business plans to the Irish Executives judges today. It was an online event. Video conferencing was used that connected us all. I never presented a business plan to a camera as [...]

For the most European recruiters Monster used to perform the best as the CV database. The quality of candidates was on average higher than the average quality of the applicant who would apply on a job site in. Monster advertised this as a ‘Passive Candidate’ as opposed to the ‘Active Candidate’. They claimed that a [...]

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Press Release NRF Awards Winners 2011 NRF in association with Irish Independent Parc Aviation “FLY AWAY” with 4 awards at NRF Recruitment Industry Awards 2011 Parc Aviation scooped the best agency of the year award for large agency whilst Recruitment Plus scored Best Small Agency for the 2nd year in row, at the 5th annual [...]

www.JobsBoard.ie is sponsoring the National Recruitment Federation’s Recruitment Industry Awards. Here is the Irish Independent Appointments page today: 320 people are expected making it the largest NRF event ever (at least that that I can remember). I am excited about presenting the award to the Best Recruitment Agency.

INTERVIEW with Robert McGonnell, founder of the new Irish video recruitment web site:  Jobkey.ie. How did you come to the idea of starting the site (tell us about yourself here a bit)? My background is primarily recruitment orientated having managed a busy Sales & Marketing desk in a Dublin based agency and having dealt with [...]

Searching for a developer, looking at client success stories I found an interesting video recruitment site. Here is a full case study from a web developer about it. Client background Bee Interviewed Limited is in the business of online recruitment. They are innovative and always look for smart solutions to the job portal market. They [...]

Social recruitment is not just searching the LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter for your perfect candidates. Social (aspect of) recruitment is using those to find people and reach efficiently to most of them via the social media. There are people that you will have to meet, since not all of us are comfortable tweeting and communication [...]

Morgan McKinley is the first Irish recruitment company that have enabled job seekers to apply to their jobs via the Apply with LinkedIn plugin from LinkedIn. After talking to recruiters in Morgan McKinley they say that it does have a drawback because they do not get the applicant’s CV but just a link to the [...]

When your competition and independent industry experts point to your web site as the best there is very little more, that is more satisfying. Yes I know you are going to say what about the revenue and profits? OK, yes that too, but the first next best thing then is a clear industry recognition of [...]