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How to handle the SEO jobs? Irish companies are still not 100% sure if to have the SEO outsourced to the specialist SEO Company, or to hire SEO staff directly, and have them work onsite. The constant barrage from the SPAM email offers from mostly Far East SEO companies and their low pricing and the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The following article is the first part of three articles on – How to Post a Job Online. This first article concentrates solely on the Job Title. Job Title Job Title is the most important part of your job description. Why? Job title is the first part that the job seeker will see of your [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interesting statistics published by OneStat: The 7 most used word phrases in search engines on the web are: 1. 2 word phrases 32.58% 2. 3 word phrase 25.61% 3. 1 word phrases 19.02% 4. 4 word phrases 12.83% 5. 5 word phrases 5.64% 6. 6 word phrases 2.32% 7. 7 word phrases 0.98% Tweet This [...]

What is the ‘Long Tail’ search result? According to HitTail (a nice online SEO tool), the Long Tail is an economic concept that says the collective demand for less-popular items can exceed all the most popular added together. So, long tail search is about using terms related to your prime search terms that will individually [...]