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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Irish Recruiters on Twitter Are you a recruiter in Ireland? Are you using Twitter? Do you want more exposure for your tweets? Do you want more Twitter followers? Send me your twitter name – just or mention @IrishRecruiter on twitter. Here is the up to date Irish Recruiters list on Twitter. Tweet This Post Delicious [...]

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 [...]

Good presentation is key to producing a successful CV. In today’s crowded jobs market, making the right impression with your CV can make all the difference between getting an interview and being completely ignored. Given that your potential future employer may well have read through a pretty big pile of applications before even casting an [...]

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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 [...]

Irish Jobs had the approach ‘If you can’t beat them, buy them!’ for many years now. Then Worky came. With most likely slightly too big price tag for the current market. Remember Worky has the global ambitions. Worky opened up a new model of sourcing. A Pay as you Go model. You can do what [...]

Your LinkedIN Profile is most likely a copy of your CV. If a recruiter does a ‘Background Check’ to verify your CV the same data will be on your LinkedIN ‘Published’ online Profile, and that is great. Your CV is all true. The issue with the CV and the LinkedIN Profile being the same is [...]

Here are just two facts first: 1. Revenues of online job boards are falling 2. Social networks are (still!) gaining popularity Why are job boards in trouble all of the sudden after being profitable for more than 10 years? The troubled world economy that hit the recession in the second half of the 2008 and [...]