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Microsoft International Tech Jobs Blog

As Gretchen correctly pointed out in the comments of the Microsoft Jobs Blog – The Winner of The Best Recruitment Blog in Ireland Award 2008 the Microsoft Jobs in Ireland are actually covered on the Microsoft International Tech Jobs Blog as opposed to the US one. The Microsoft International Tech Jobs Blog is actually on […]

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Irish Recruitment Blog Toppic?

Every Recruiter in Ireland I spoke to about Blogging asked me the following same questions: How should I go about it? See the bottom post 22 hours for detailed steps. Then the next question is always: What should I blog about? Danny Wall wrote the shortest and simplest answer in the article Number 1 in […]

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Irish Jobs

Defining the list of the jobs that are really Irish Jobs, or specific to Irish people both in Ireland and abroad is not an easy task. There are the traditional jobs Irish people have been associated before that include the list below This is a list of the truly traditional Irish Jobs: Farmer Brewer Irish […]

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Prosperity Blog – The Winner of The Best Recruitment Agency Blog in Ireland Award 2008

Welcome to the: The Best Recruitment Agency Blog in Ireland Award 2008 In not that strong competition between the Recruitment Agencies in Ireland The Winner of The Best Recruitment Agency Blog in Ireland Award is: Prosperity Blog Ta – daaa!!!!!!! This is the first Blog used for the recruitment purpose I have found by any […]

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Matt’s Blog Post on ‘Recruitment in Ireland, Competition vs. Cooperation, and Facebook‘

I do not know Matt (the author), but an interesting read under the title: Recruitment in Ireland, Competition vs. Cooperation, and Facebook From Matt who describes him selves as: I’m working as a consultant, creating new marketing and digital strategy solutions for the company…

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Wikipedia: Recruitment in the Republic of Ireland

The ‘Official’ definition of Recruitment in Ireland on Wikipedia.

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Microsoft Jobs Blog – The Winner of The Best Recruitment Blog in Ireland Award 2008

Welcome to the: The Best Recruitment Blog in Ireland Award 2008 In not that strong competition between the Employers in Ireland The Winner of The Best Recruitment Blog in Ireland Award is: Microsoft Jobs Blog Ta – daaa!!!!!!! This is the first Blog used for the recruitment purpose I have found by any Irish Employer. […]

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Jobs Blog Popularity

There is one thing one has to manage when his blog becomes ‘popular’. JobsBlog.ie is a bit more than a month old now. It tops several searches in the Google.ie search engine results page (SERP) for a a number of search phrases. That means traffic. Some wanted some not really. Today I logged in to […]

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Recruiters Turn to Facebook

Is it a dawn ow the job boards with all the Facebook, LinkedIN and the rest of them popping up? Or is there a space for both to coexist, perhaps in an semi integrated / partnership way? Would it not be nice if you would get an Job Applicatin with a CV and a link […]

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Big Business and Blogging

Big Business and Blogging In US this is the current status: ‘Overall, I found 41 of the Fortune 500 (8%) had some level of corporate blogging.’ From: http://www.businessandblogging.com/big-business-blogging/ In Ireland? Well do you know of ANY business blogging? Microsoft is trying but it is all more advertisement than a blog. Anyone else on the Green […]

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Internet Activity, or ‘Will Irish Recruitment Agencies get the importance of the Google.ie Search Engine Ranking?

What do people do most on the Internet? When asked, the response is the mixture of: House hunting Cars related searches Jobs searches Holyday related searches, mortgage, insurance are the second most important group. Almost all the behaviour monitoring will record the same above activities. This is what we ‘admit’. In the same time Internet […]

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Declan Fitzgerald’s (Lead Technical Recruiter in Microsoft)Blog

It is interesting to see how Microsoft employees know how to blog only, and I mean ONLY about Microsoft. They might stride to a game of golf, but in general, every single blog post from a Microsoft employee is about the Glorious Microsoft. No other company managed to ‘swing’ the employees as well as Microsoft […]

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Microsoft Recruitment

Check the Microsoft Europe Recruitment Web Site: http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/ Comments are welcome! Silverlight? I am curious to see how well can the spiders index the content on such a web site…

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The Job Hunting Cycle

An interesting definition from Texas Workforce on how we actually ‘flow’ trough the job hunting phases in our career. From: http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/tjhg/cycle.html ‘Landing a job doesn’t mean you’ve reached some final destination. It’s really just another stage of the job-hunting cycle, which you will travel throughout your working life.’ Step Zero/Six: WORK: Track Achievements; Connect with […]

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WordPress has a built in RSS – What about Irish jobs sites?

The WordPress blogging engine that is blog is written on has a built in RSS feed. The RSS feed is under the URL: http://www.jobsblog.ie/Jobs/rss/ Which is exactly where you would expect it to be! Anyway, a RSS feed is what you can send your job hunters to subscribe to on your job site. Most of […]