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Niche Jobs Sites
To have a good niche job site in Ireland you need a good domain name. Most are gone, simply since Jobs.ie, or Saon group bought them. Here is just a list of some of the domains pointing to the jobs from Jobs.ie – some redirected domains, some showing some niche jobs sites.
labourjobs.ie, callcenterjobs.ie, [...]

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 [...]

Irish Recruiters on Twitter
Are you a recruiter in Ireland?
Are you using Twitter?
Do you want more exposure for your tweets?
Do you want more Twitter followers?
Send me your twitter name – just or mention @IrishRecruiter on twitter.
Here is the up to date Irish Recruiters list on Twitter.
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Irish recruitment websites fall into two groups. First advertise their prices online and others do not. I always wondered why is that?
Here are the prices from the Irish job sites for a single job advertising:
RecruitIreland.ie – €99
Monster – €99
EmployIreland – €149 (includes CV Database)
LoadzaJobs – €280
Jobs.ie – €390
Irish Jobs -€950
The last two sites Jobs.ie and [...]

Social Networks are here! Recruitment and sourcing in particular is changing. Job Boards that the recruitment agencies have been relying for as their main source of candidates are getting smaller role to play today. The future for the job boards is not extremely bright either. Their dominance is being replaced by the social networks. There [...]

Bill Fischer is having a speech in Dublin on the Microsoft’s Future of Recruitment conference later this week. His company in Bill’s own words: TwitterJobSearch.com, is a global search engine for Twitter that uses natural language processing to identify and index offers of employment.
I asked Bill what will he be talking about in the recruitment [...]

Ireland is getting further and further behind in the adoption of the new technologies. Only a few years ago we have been on the forefront, and look at us now? The time has stopped here. Words clock is ticking, but we got occupied with our own issues and forgot to look across our shores. Social [...]

… 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 ability to connect all those channels together. Ad your friends [...]

Monster is interested in what job seekers think of their jobs web site. Here is the mail sent to job hunters today:
SATISFIED?
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK
Dear Job Seeker,
At Monster, we are committed to creating an online experience that advances your life and your career. To help us achieve this, we would like to [...]

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Clarion Hotel Dublin: Social Media Networking Event

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Work in Ireland (WorkinIreland.ie) as jet another recruitment job portal. Although it is not really publicised, it is owned by a recruitment agency called Work Direct (WorkDirect.ie). The agency is run by the Directors Philip Beggs and Sabina Frontzek.
The Work in Ireland site is not that bad looking. Certainly not that bad as a [...]

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! – [...]

Irish Jobs had the approach ‘If you can’t beat them, buy them!’ for many years now. Then Worky came. With most likely slightly too big price tag for the current market. Remember Worky has the global ambitions.
Worky opened up a new model of sourcing. A Pay as you Go model. You can do what you [...]

Do you or your company use social media networking or social media to support recruitment efforts?
76% plan to invest in employee referrals
72% plan to increase their use of social networks
66% have successfully hired a candidate identified or introduced through an online social network
Jobvite also asked employers to list the social networks and here is how [...]

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch?
I call from a client today about their jobs being published to FreeJobs.ie made me thinking. Their jobs published on the Free Jobs web site are about 3 years old. They got an application for a job advertised there yesterday. Since my client is using [...]