Will you advertise on Facebook or in the traditional proven media like newspapers or radio? I was talking to some postgraduate business and IT students (Overeducated and under experienced for Jobs of tomorrow) and asked them who has the Facebook account. I wanted to show how deep the Facebook penetration actually is. I got more [...]
The social media is leaving scars on the traditional advertising models. How your brand is represented on Facebook is far more important than the article in Irish Times. Why? Simply because of it far greater reach. Far more people read Facebook than Irish Times. Far, far more, and the gap is getting bigger each day. [...]
According to the Monster Jobs Site, the most used interview question is: Are you ready to answer the Tell me about yourself question? If not, you should prepare the answer for that most common interview question. Here is the advice from Monster Jobs Site: Tell me about yourself – This is usually the opening question [...]
A company is hiring a blogger / social media person. Senior management have spent a lot of time defining the position. They couldn’t really make up their mind if that is a web (hence IT) position or a marketing position. Number of different people contributed to the job specification. The required skills list had 50 [...]
Monster’s Affiliate Scheme called Monster for Publishers invites you to start earning money while sending traffic to Monster web site. They pay actually only if the visitor from your site buys their service, or subscribes / uploads the CV. Here is more from Monster for Publishers Monster Career Ad Network is the largest career focused [...]
Creating your personal and or company brand is a delicate act on the social networking sites. You really need to be genuine, positive, honest, and stand behind anything you say. And that is something in the contradiction with the main task – being Active. What do you say on a web 2.0 sites – if [...]
Premier Group Irish Employment Monitor: The Premier Group Irish Employment Monitor, which measures the pulse of the Irish professional jobs market, registered a 31% increase in the number of new professional roles coming onto the market during September 09 versus the previous month (August 09). This was the highest number of new professional job vacancies [...]
… when all the personal branding channels are combined. In no particular order: 1. Social networks presence – descriptive public profile combined with the active participation in discussions. 2. Personal Blog 3. Presence on the Corporate Blog 4. Any online publication (indexed by Google) The real power of all your online presence is in the [...]
The National Recruitment Federation (NRF) Recruitment Industry Awards are only a week away! The gala awards ceremony on Friday, 2nd October 2009 is at The Four Seasons Hotel. Get your dresses ready ladies, and have your suites pressed gentleman! Besides the NRF Annual Conference, this is the most important gathering of the recruitment industry professional [...]
The recruitment in Ireland is changing, and changing a lot in this recession. We all know there are far less jobs advertised. All the metrics point to it like the Irish Employment Monitor by Premier. The Unemployment is growing as companies are reducing their staff levels or closing and leaving Ireland due to its un-competitiveness. [...]
There are great skills hidden in the Irish recruitment workforce. Declan Fitzgerald who you all know very well by now if you are readers of this blog, have created a browser toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. Irish Recruiters Toolbar helps you to find and read the latest blog posts on Jobs Blog! – [...]
Job Shop – Your source for Irish jobs. Job Shop is successfully living under the radar (Google) since 2007. The site looks a bit like Loadza Jobs, while the logo has a bit of a Irish Jobs touch.
Your LinkedIN Profile is most likely a copy of your CV. If a recruiter does a ‘Background Check’ to verify your CV the same data will be on your LinkedIN ‘Published’ online Profile, and that is great. Your CV is all true. The issue with the CV and the LinkedIN Profile being the same is [...]
I got a mail this morning from Jobs.ie web site. They are offering me a 100€ career workshop. I thought about it during a coffee this morning. Recruit Ireland have changed their model and are offering free advertisements to the Irish employers. Until they fill their books with names, whom to start selling once [...]
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