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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 [...]

The following series of articles I will write about the long list of changes LinkedIn have brought in lately, and how does it all reflect the recruitment process in Ireland. The main topics are: • Free Job Advertising by LinkedIn • Paid Job Seeker Account on LinkedIn • Why Would I Pay LinkedIn? • LinkedIn [...]

I have spent most of the last week with Facebook and Google in their fancy Dublin offices. One word I have been hearing over and over: Maximize. They used the word Maximize in every second sentence. It is absolutely unbelievable on how many places you can put that word and almost not lose the meaning [...]

The service I would gladly pay LinkedIn to do for my today is to do the sourcing for myself. What they did is they have created this wonderful social network, and it is super easy to use, and has so many job hunters on their database. I can use it for free, or I can [...]

Dara O’Briain defined how wrong one can be in the eyes of the Irish low as: 1. there is all this stuff which comes under: That’s grand 2. then it moves into: Ah now don’t push it 3. … and finally it comes under: Right now you’re takin the piss, and that’s when the police [...]

Well, we all know that job advertising on LinkedIn is for most of us, far from free. With a lack of a volume discount that is the industry standard in within job board, LinkedIn actually priced themselves far too high. For that reason, the number of job advertisements sold in Europe was always really symbolic. [...]

How good is your LinkedIn Profile???!!!

Well LinkedIn have decided that the Recruitment Agency market is to big not to service it. The new product called LinkedIn Recruiter is launched that enables Recruitment Agencies to harvest the full power of the LinkedIn Social Network. Is LinkedIN Recruiter a good or a bad thing for you? Well, depends from your standpoint. LinkedIn [...]

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 [...]

Jobs.ie and EmployIreland.com are the only two web sites that recorded a growth of the unique visitors numbers during September this year. According to Complete who collects the public data, as opposed to the marketing messages from the job boards, Irish Jobs, RecruitIreland and Monster both recorded a significant drop of traffic during September 2009. [...]

Me in the press again. This time in the InBusiness magazine by Chambers Ireland. Here are a few snippets: “PEOPLE WILL BE COMFORTABLE BUYING FROM A COMPANY THAT HAS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE RECOMMENDING THEM.” – Ivan Stojanovic Conventional advertising and marketing strategies are typically one-way communications with the product or service provider addressing customers. However, [...]

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 [...]

… 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 [...]

Photos from: Clarion Hotel Dublin: Social Media Networking Event

Find a Worker is a jobs site and a business directory with a little bit of the social networking as well. Find a worker is a job site. You can post a job for free. Find a Worker is a business directory web site. You can promote your business here. Like the Golden Pages. Find [...]