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With 2020 slowly coming to end I’ve decided to reflect on my experience. The recruiting industry faced many challenges this year from working remotely, to hiring freezes, to dealing with a global pandemic. Recruiters have faced a ton of challenges this year. Virtual Interviewing At the beginning of March many countries went into full lockdowns. […]
What are the Top 5 most in demand skills in Ireland February 2017?
I was looking at the Welcome to IBM® Kenexa® Prove It!® on Cloud tests today. I took the Excel 2013 one. And it was fun! I took a test on the latest Dell XPS laptop. For those who know little about Dell ranges, those are the fancy fast ones. So here is how it went: Kenexa […]
Just found an interesting HR Director job advertised by Amazon Ireland. I really, really like it, and I think it would be good for it myself! I do not think Amazon is ready to go outside of the box and hire people like me for a role like that. Could I be wrong? Corporations might […]
If you ask students in Ireland what companies provide the best opportunities you get some very interesting results! Here are the top ten companies Irish IT students would like to work for: 1 Google – Not a surprise. They have the tallest building in Dublin located in Dublin Docklands, area admired by cool young people. […]
It’s all cool that Dropbox has the Muppets in their recruitment video, but for the Employers Branding perspective, I would like to see at least one face there. Remember how well was it done in the original Muppets, where a guest of the show was a human? Could we not see one human the candidates […]
I wrote various blog posts about the use of video in recruitment. I am not talking here about the video interviewing products, but creating the employment branding videos. What NASA just published is simply great!
The youth unemployment is still in the double digits numbers in almost all European countries. The recession is slowly receding and there are positive signs all over. The US stock market is at it’s highest numbers ever, the oil price is on the other end of the scale, and that is all helping the economy […]
Ireland is the 4th best country at attracting migrants with university degrees, according to the OECD data. With that in mind, can you believe there are still companies in Ireland who what to hire only the local candidates? Talking about the missed opportunity and losing a competitive advantage.
I don’t think it is fair to say that a cover letter can get you a job on its own, however, it can definitely get you an interview. If after the interview process it is between to very closely matched candidates, the recruiter may refer back to the cover letters and that could sway their […]
When you combine a lot of creativity, technology, great skills and passion, you crate the great stuff! Here is a sample of such great stuff from my friends in Ericsson.
The recession had a very negative effect on the Irish job board industry. All the job boards are struggling. The number of jobs advertised in the last 5 years is lower than the number of jobs advertised in a single year before the recession. All that is really happening in the jobs board space are […]
Facebook boasts a wealth of data about your relationships but very little professional information. LinkedIn is just the opposite. A startup called Discoverly has developed a chrome extension that marries data from Facebook and LinkedIn. Founder and chief executive Theodore Summe jokes that Discoverly is “playing Switzerland” between the two social networking giants, which don’t […]
Good people from Computer futures have sent me some great muffins. Thanks, guys! It’s not that often that I get branded food! I like it!
The recruitment has changed dramatically in the last decade or two. The older recruiters still remember the Rolodex and the Filofax. Faxing the CVs to the clients, well it wasn’t that long ago. Computers & internet replaced the paper-based systems. We, recruiters, become more productive and effective. Really? :) The social networks changed the recruitment […]