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I got an email from the Dublin Institute of Technology to check their new Careers Site called “JobScene”. This is the exact text that welcomed me there: To access jobscene and view our current opportunities you must register first. I must register to see jobs? I am guessing there is a reason for it? Perhaps [...]

Most recent 99 results returned for keyword: #NRFconf heskethmj : RT @RECPress: 3. Our very own @kevingreenrec spoke at the #NRFconf on Thursday. A summary of his talk in his own words: http://t.co/vbko9NK4 14 minutes ago – Via web – Reply – Retweet – Favorite – View JobsBoardie : .@RECPress The blog post doesn’t do [...]

Current (confirmed) #truDublin Track Leaders #truDublin Summer 2012 takes place on Wednesday 16th May & Thursday 17th May in the Sycamore Club, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, kicking off at 9am each day. Tickets are priced at €199 for the two days and a limited number of one-day tickets are available for €99.50 each day. Be [...]

The National Recruitment Federation (NRF) will hold its Annual Conference 2012 in City West Hotel on Thursday 10th of May. “The Way forward” is the theme for this 2012 Conference.   What is NRF? The NRF is a voluntary organisation set up to maintain standards in the Recruitment Industry. Web Site: www.NRF.ie Twitter: @NRFIreland Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/nationalrecruitmentfederation [...]

If you are still wondering why have you placed the Facebook ‘Like’ button on your home page this will be interesting for you! If at some stage you got bored checking how many Facebook ‘Likes’ your page got and you have offered an iPhone draw when you reach 10 000 ‘Likes’ this is even more [...]

The purpose of this high prestigious awards programme is to celebrate outstanding examples of HR Leadership & Innovation and encourage what HR is continuously adapting to – finding new and innovative ways to respond to commercial pressures. The awards show how HR has gained credibility as a business partner with a deep understanding of the [...]

Statistically less than 10% of recruiters write a blog. Less than 5% wrote more than 100 blog posts. That is one in twenty! There are number of interesting theories why recruiters are rarely bloggers. My own opinion is that by nature of the recruitment as a business it is really about communication and social interaction. [...]

I often get asked about the effectiveness of the video used for the recruitment in Ireland. I always struggle how to explain that it so far never worked for a single recruiter in Ireland. The reason is that it does work really well for some recruiters internationally. I was never really able to define why [...]

Despite hiring intentions remaining weak, the percentage of employers surveyed expecting to add to their workforce is the highest since Quarter 4 2008 Dublin, Tuesday, 13th March 2012 – Manpower, the leader in contingent and permanent recruitment solutions, today releases the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, which reveals that overall hiring activity will remain sluggish in [...]

#truLondon is next week, and by the looks of it – this is going to be the biggest one ever. 48 speakers or ‘Track Leaders’ in two days? With the tweetup and RIDE events added to the #tru event as well? On top of the most interesting,… well to be honest impressive is the better [...]

National Employment Week is a forum focusing on the major social and economic issues surrounding employment in Ireland. The weeklong series of free breakfast briefings features a broad panel of speakers presenting current thinking and new ideas to promote sustainable employment and raise the skill base across Ireland.  Each day focuses on a different employment [...]

During the Celtic Tiger years and lately in the recession the careers and jobs fairs do not seem to be going away. People talk about job boards (going away) and social networks, but there was a tremendous buzz yesterday over the weekend in The Mansion House. In fact so much so that the cue to [...]

Once a year I get an urge to write about the job seekers experience on the employers careers sites. Why? It really is an easy topic to write about because the careers web sites are usually some hybrid sites. Partly managed by the employers content management system and then some application tracking system brutally glued [...]

It is not that often that LinkedIn makes me laugh. But today it did! After accepting a connection request from a friend LinkedIn displayed a list of people I should connect to. Great and handy feature from LinkedIn. On the first page there was one I recognised. But not from real life but from the [...]

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 [...]