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Jobs Board got shortlisted for the Irish executives Inspire Ireland 2011 Award. 7 of us got shortlisted and one after another we presented our business plans to the Irish Executives judges today. It was an online event. Video conferencing was used that connected us all. I never presented a business plan to a camera as [...]

For the most European recruiters Monster used to perform the best as the CV database. The quality of candidates was on average higher than the average quality of the applicant who would apply on a job site in. Monster advertised this as a ‘Passive Candidate’ as opposed to the ‘Active Candidate’. They claimed that a [...]

Press Release NRF Awards Winners 2011 NRF in association with Irish Independent Parc Aviation “FLY AWAY” with 4 awards at NRF Recruitment Industry Awards 2011 Parc Aviation scooped the best agency of the year award for large agency whilst Recruitment Plus scored Best Small Agency for the 2nd year in row, at the 5th annual [...]

INTERVIEW with Robert McGonnell, founder of the new Irish video recruitment web site:  Jobkey.ie. How did you come to the idea of starting the site (tell us about yourself here a bit)? My background is primarily recruitment orientated having managed a busy Sales & Marketing desk in a Dublin based agency and having dealt with [...]

Searching for a developer, looking at client success stories I found an interesting video recruitment site. Here is a full case study from a web developer about it. Client background Bee Interviewed Limited is in the business of online recruitment. They are innovative and always look for smart solutions to the job portal market. They [...]

Morgan McKinley is the first Irish recruitment company that have enabled job seekers to apply to their jobs via the Apply with LinkedIn plugin from LinkedIn. After talking to recruiters in Morgan McKinley they say that it does have a drawback because they do not get the applicant’s CV but just a link to the [...]

When your competition and independent industry experts point to your web site as the best there is very little more, that is more satisfying. Yes I know you are going to say what about the revenue and profits? OK, yes that too, but the first next best thing then is a clear industry recognition of [...]

In the lovely article titled ‘UK tech companies fall behind US in social recruiting – survey’ Silicon Republic states: US companies are ahead of their UK counterparts when it comes to using the web and social media to recruit new employees, new research from recruitment software provider Zartis suggests. LinkedIn is the most popular social [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]