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As announced last week Twitter is setting up in Dublin. The first position is advertised today for the HR Business Partner. Here is from the job announcement: “We currently have an opening for an HR business partner. Here at Twitter, the goal of HR is to serve as a consultant across the organisation, to shepherd [...]

LinkedIn is the No. 1 Recruitment Social Recruitment Network in the world. That is the fact. There is no one in the recruitment social networking space that managed to do anything similar on the global space. And there is no shortage of well-funded start-ups who would love to take a bite at that business. When [...]

Ever wondered what industries do job seekers search for jobs on job sites? Here is the data from www.EmployIreland.ie – showing the data for September 2011. The most popular is: Construction, Architecture & Property, followed by Security, Trades & General Services, Medical Professionals & Healthcare and Hotel & Catering. Note the Telecoms, IT, HR and General [...]

Recruitment training was always an issue really in Ireland. The HR courses had to cover for it and the in house training would fill the gaps and bring recruiters up to date with the current industry trends. Then last year we finally got a recruitment specific training with the Irish Times Training centre. There is [...]

In Ireland have our NRF that gives awards to the recruitment agencies (their members only) and within those there is an Award for the Best Recruitment Web Site. Then we have the Golden Spiders awards that again one has to pay €150 per site to get ‘Nominated’, so the real good work of start-ups is [...]

Just looking at the Oracle iPhone jobs application. Note that the Search screen has no free text search. As opposed it has the three ‘pull downs’ for Function, Country and City. It might be slightly unusual for job hunters used to do free text searches on any jobs web site. Should the mobile platform be [...]

Starting a job board on any other recruitment online business??? The first step is to choose a name. A name that is available online. I for example dream avout starting a job site in Ireland. After a long search for the available domain in the I found JobsBoard.ie and registered it for the new site: [...]

Why hacking a job site? Job sites collect CVs that contain tons of personal data. When you ring your bank, or a credit card company, they will at some stage ask you for your address. They might ask you for your email address as well. Your landline or your mobile number. All that plus tons [...]

#truLondon is tomorrow. Jet another recruitment conference in the already full calendar of similar events. Or at least events that would fall under the same category. Only this one is not a conference but as the organiser himself call it, this is an: Unconference. Interesting marketing spiel you would say, and then realise how wrong [...]

After a few years the recruitment website Loadzajobs.ie, run by a large newspaper publisher in Ireland – Independent News and Media, have disappeared from the web. What replaced it is jet another recruitment web site. It is called FindaJob.ie. Recruiters used to call the old one ‘Loadza’ form Loadzajob.ie, so I am getting this new [...]

SOLAS is the new name of FAS. Regardless of the way the government is trying to paint the picture, FAS is still alive and well. All the staff are safe, all the decision makers and all the way to the Board of Directors in FAS. The internal organisation is to change a bit, but in [...]

Good news for job seekers. The government has launched the new initiative officially called National Intenrnship Scheme that in their own words will provide a work experience placements for interns for 6 or 9 month period. There is 5000 placements available and they are paid by the government €50 a week on top of their [...]

Ellie Doyle from Pentasia Recruitment talks about how digital is changing the face of the recruitment industry regarding candidates online presence and potential employers expectations. Ellie Doyle in her own words is a Digital and interactive recruiter running the Dublin office of Pentasia. Where she does headhunting and recruitment for ecommerce, online and interactive gaming [...]

#truDublin is on today. It is branded as Un-conference, and I can only say – IT WORKS! A mix of recruiters from agencies and internal company ones, all interested to both hear and talk about the social recruitment. Job boards, guerrilla recruitment, facebook, LinkedIN, blogging, SEO, you name it. All the topics have been discussed [...]