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 […]
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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. […]
It is funny to watch the traffic on a job site – when you remove the jobs from it! This is a short history of the Jobs Site for Dublin Airports new Terminal 2. The site goes live with the Boom announcement on TV (11,461 visitors immediately). The next day all the national media covers […]
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 […]
The role of the Principal Resource Specialist (Senior Recruiter) – PRS is to develop and deliver excellent recruitment services to the client in line with agreed service levels. A key component of this role is to design innovative sourcing strategies to attract candidates from within the market place in a cost-effective manner. The Principal Resource […]
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.
Job Description: A Director of permanent sales is needed in Cpl to develop consistent processes and drive the execution, development, and measurement of our permanent placement business in Ireland. You will need to detail and measure our progress towards achieving our strategy of becoming number one in each of the sectors in which we operate. […]
Irish recruitment websites fall into two groups. First advertise their prices online and others do not. I always wondered why is that? Here are the prices from the Irish job sites for a single job advertising: RecruitIreland.ie – €99 Monster – €99 EmployIreland – €149 (includes CV Database) LoadzaJobs – €280 Jobs.ie – €390 Irish […]
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 […]
Since the economy bottomed out and took scores of Irish jobs with it, purveyors of job boards have seen corporate customers curb or cut contracts at the same time they’ve dealt with an influx of résumé postings from the newly unemployed. More companies also are adding job postings and career centers to their Web sites, […]
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 […]
Ireland is getting further and further behind in the adoption of the new technologies. Only a few years ago we have been on the forefront, and look at us now? The time has stopped here. Words clock is ticking, but we got occupied with our own issues and forgot to look across our shores. Social […]
… 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 […]