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Niche Jobs Sites
To have a good niche job site in Ireland you need a good domain name. Most are gone, simply since Jobs.ie, or Saon group bought them. Here is just a list of some of the domains pointing to the jobs from Jobs.ie – some redirected domains, some showing some niche jobs sites.
labourjobs.ie, callcenterjobs.ie, [...]

Bill Fischer is having a speech in Dublin on the Microsoft’s Future of Recruitment conference later this week. His company in Bill’s own words: TwitterJobSearch.com, is a global search engine for Twitter that uses natural language processing to identify and index offers of employment.
I asked Bill what will he be talking about in the recruitment [...]

Don’t be too technical or industry specific in your profile
Don’t jump on a social networking site and give the perception that you’re desperately looking for a job — just “taking” and not “giving”
Don’t wait until you’re laid off before building out your social networks and staying active
Don’t forget to check out your [...]

If you are a recruiter in Ireland I am guessing you would like your jobs to be advertised in real time in as many publications as you can afford. Any Irish Jobs boards are the obvious choice, and then the FREE Jobs sites that accept job advertisements. In Ireland there aren’t that many free jobs [...]

The following article is the third part of three articles on – How to Post a Job Online. The first article is Job Titles. The second is Job Tags and Keywords.This third article concentrates solely on the Job Description.
Job Description
Do not start your job description with:
Your job title – since it is probably printed [...]

The following article is the second part of three articles on – How to Post a Job Online. The first article is Job Titles. This second article concentrates solely on the Job Tags or Job Keywords.
Job Tags
Tags or Keywords are the words or phrases we can associate any page with to help the search [...]

I am pleased to announce the nicest Irish Job board: Green Jobs!
A this is second new job board I am looking at today, and funnily enough the first one was also ‘green’ or perhaps a bit to ‘green’!
Anyway back to Green Jobs! It is again the jobs site owned by the recruitment agency, and the [...]

I started working on a new job site this month. It is called Jobs Ireland and is hosted on a domain www.Jobs-Ireland.ie. It is early days rally. Today it is a ‘Job Board in the Nappies’, but some of the ideas that are coded now actually look like the interesting features for the end users.
Jobs [...]

Recruitment Roadshow 2008 took me to Swords and Tallaght today visiting the two La Creme & Premier offices. It was really interesting how the same presentation I am giving every day evolves from the contribution from the recruiters I meet every day. The most interesting topic we spoke about today was the Job Titles. Basically [...]

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LinekedIN has a really slow take-up in Ireland. Irish recruiters are only recently being less ‘glued’ to the traditional job boards like Irish Jobs, and started embracing into the modern recruitment methods. LinkedIN is the most common place all the recruiters went to in a search for a new candidates. The problem that happened is [...]

Using Google AdWords for your recruitment campaigns? Here are some basic tips in the article below. Use it as a checklist, to review what you are doing with our Google AdWords campaigns…
Why Use PPC?
When thinking about your online marketing portfolio have you ever considered Paid Search or “Pay Per Click” (PPC)? With the ever increasing [...]

Well it was only about 30 hours ago, when we announced The Launch of the RSSJobs.ie Job Site, and we have just sent the first application to the Recruiter!!!
There are a few milestones in the development of the jobs site:
Uploading the site to the Internet so that it is visible to everyone.
Publishing your first [...]

Google AdWords was good!
Years ago I was preaching to the recruiters in Ireland to start using Google AdWords. The cost per click (CPC) was literally a few cents. The early adopters really drove massive traffic, and relevant traffic to their web sites. I remember my own www.IrelandJobs.ie – and how easy was it to purchase [...]

Publishing a job advertisement on the web strongly benefits from the search engine optimisation of the jobs post itself. Regardless of the job board you are publishing your job you will definitely get more applications if you apply the search engine optimisation techniques to your job advertisement.
How to optimise your jobs postings for the search [...]