Someone was quite imaginative in Enterprise Ireland and have decided to put an end into the growth problems of Irish start-ups. How to stimulate growth and rapid expansion? If you can hire new staff easily it will help! To enable this hyper growth of Irish start-up the Enterprise Ireland have decided to help them do [...]
The responses to the recent poll on LinkedIn: When presented with a good IT candidate not available locally, would you do the phone interview? Show that the phone interview is the way to start the interviewing process. Still the majority of the recruiters would fly the top candidate in for the last round of the [...]
Did you hear Google released a major update to Penguin 2 on Friday? Matt Cutts (the head of Google’s Webspam team) recently confirmed on his blog that Penguin 2.0 is now live. So let’s see how did the Google Penguin 2 update affected our Irish online recruitment industry. Here is the search result page for [...]
Great Recruitment Advertising Workshop event organised by Stephen Harrington Recruitment Manager: Sales | Marketing | Multi-Lingual @ Allen Recruitment. Here is the original announcement: When and Where: Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4 – Vavasour Suite, registration at main reception. Wednesday 24th April, from 8.45 to 11.30am Enter via entrance A on Lansdowne Road Car park [...]
Here is a new job for the Recruitment Consultant advertised by the SAON Group (IrisJobs.ie): Resourcer/Recruitment Consultant Saongroup operates online recruitment websites for recruiters and career seekers across four continents – Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas – and websites live in 29 countries. The Group also includes Candidate Manager, a leading provider of [...]
An interesting job post I Stumbled Upon,… (not really, I saw it on Mashable). It is for a Pope. Is it a good job spec? I’ll let you be the judge of it yourself:
With JobBridge in the news again I couldn’t resist not to clearly put myself in the ranks of those who are against it. Not like the Socialist Pary members like Paul Murphy MEP who writes JobBridge to nowhere! (I like the article!), but quite close to it. The internship scheme is a good idea and [...]
JobsBoard.ie will let you wind the page 3 times faster than Irish Jobs site! There is plenty of job sites in Ireland. Each ofhtem has plenty of jobs. Most of the jobs are the same on the job sites. So what site to choose? Perhaps the one with the most jobs? Perhaps the one you [...]
In the Links are the currency on the web we looked at the total number of links no the web that the Link Count tool from SEOmoz would show for our 20 recruitment agency web sites. But not all the links are equal. The more I think about it, it would be fair to say [...]
I got an email from the Dublin Institute of Technology to check their new Careers Site called “JobScene”. This is the exact text that welcomed me there: To access jobscene and view our current opportunities you must register first. I must register to see jobs? I am guessing there is a reason for it? Perhaps [...]
Statistically less than 10% of recruiters write a blog. Less than 5% wrote more than 100 blog posts. That is one in twenty! There are number of interesting theories why recruiters are rarely bloggers. My own opinion is that by nature of the recruitment as a business it is really about communication and social interaction. [...]
I often get asked about the effectiveness of the video used for the recruitment in Ireland. I always struggle how to explain that it so far never worked for a single recruiter in Ireland. The reason is that it does work really well for some recruiters internationally. I was never really able to define why [...]
Despite hiring intentions remaining weak, the percentage of employers surveyed expecting to add to their workforce is the highest since Quarter 4 2008 Dublin, Tuesday, 13th March 2012 – Manpower, the leader in contingent and permanent recruitment solutions, today releases the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, which reveals that overall hiring activity will remain sluggish in [...]
#truLondon is next week, and by the looks of it – this is going to be the biggest one ever. 48 speakers or ‘Track Leaders’ in two days? With the tweetup and RIDE events added to the #tru event as well? On top of the most interesting,… well to be honest impressive is the better [...]
National Employment Week is a forum focusing on the major social and economic issues surrounding employment in Ireland. The weeklong series of free breakfast briefings features a broad panel of speakers presenting current thinking and new ideas to promote sustainable employment and raise the skill base across Ireland. Each day focuses on a different employment [...]
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