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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 [...]

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 [...]

By now you probably know that I get very upset when someone brings in the service of charging job hunters for … job hunting. LikedIN is the last company who did it in Ireland, with introducing of the job seekers badges. They even had 3 levels of those badges, probably related to how desperate you [...]

Here is a list of jobs advertised on the leading Irish job sites and the recruitment agency web sites. Job Boards Irish Jobs 12253 Recruit Ireland 3350 Monster 2969 Jobs 2800 Irish Times 1883 Employ Ireland 1339 Recruitment Agencies CPL 1340 Brightwater 1291 Morgan McKinley 1178 Sigmar 671 Stelfox 627 Grafton 228 Manpower 183 Irish [...]

I often get asked from the employers if they should build their Career Web Site. The fact is I never know what to answer. It is due to this expectations of what will they achieve with it. Since the investment in it is never small really when you put all the time of different internal [...]

Cameron is the organiser of the International Recruitment Conference that is taking place this Friday in Dublin. He is really passionate about organising it and really a pleasure to deal with. Here is a short ‘Interview’ we had a few days ago with the upcoming International Recruitment Conference as a topic. Q. Tell us about [...]

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 [...]

Jet another Irish job site is born. You know how I love those! The difference that CVrecruit.ie brings to the Irish jobs advertising marketplace is… Well let me be fair and let them explain it in their own words. Here is from their ‘Advertise with us’ page: Advertise with us If you are looking to [...]