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According to the Monster Jobs Site, the most used interview question is:
Are you ready to answer the Tell me about yourself question? If not, you should prepare the answer for that most common interview question.
Here is the advice from Monster Jobs Site:
Tell me about yourself – This is usually the opening question and, [...]

Following the Recruitment Workshop in Dublin, Peter Cosgrove from Hudson Recruitment is holding the same in Cork. There is a Galway Workshop planned as well. Date and location will be confirmed here closer to the date.
JOB SEEKER EVENT CORK NOVEMBER 10th
The National Recruitment Federation is hosting a free job seekers event on November 10th. [...]

Applying for jobs can be a difficult business at the best of times, but for many people the most nerve-wracking and difficult part of the recruitment process is getting past the interview stage. After sifting through the various applications, the interview process offers a chance for employers to meet some of the more promising candidates [...]

If you have a large gap in your job history, an employer may well ask you to explain what you were doing during this time. Gaps left unexplained in your CV can show you in a less than positive light, as they can lead the employer to draw their own, quite possibly unfavourable, conclusions about [...]

Peter Cosgrove of the NRF will hold a talk for job seekers on September 30th in the Grand Canal Hotel for up to 100 people. To register please email director@nrf.ie.
This is a pilot test free jobseekers workshop by NRF. The presenter Peter Cosgrove agreed to meet me over a coffee and we had a short [...]

The workshop will run for 90 minutes and will cover:
• Writing a world class CV
• Where to find the next job
• Advice on dealing with recruitment agencies
• Improving interview skills and techniques
• Networking skills
• Negotiating salaries
The goal is to provide insight and support to candidates who are currently in a difficult job market. Free Jobseekers Workshop is targeted at all levels [...]

Work in Ireland (WorkinIreland.ie) as jet another recruitment job portal. Although it is not really publicised, it is owned by a recruitment agency called Work Direct (WorkDirect.ie). The agency is run by the Directors Philip Beggs and Sabina Frontzek.
The Work in Ireland site is not that bad looking. Certainly not that bad as a [...]

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 [...]

Worky is a Recruitment Social Network. Kind of like LinkedIN, but a few years later. Worky has no people in it jet, but has the pricing model – a bit steeper than LikedIN.
What is wrong here:
RecruitIreland goes FREE and in the same month Worky is goes live more expensive than LinkedIN, that Irish [...]

What do you do when you purchase too many job slots on a job board? You use them and fill with the duplicates of the jobs you need to fill or write a generic job spec for the type of the jobs you are hiring for, and publish those.
Duplicates, Duplicates, Duplicates…
The advantage in having the [...]

An interesting thread on the toppic of the CVs from LinkedIN:
Patrick Myers
Risk Management, Process Improvement, Consulting, Credit and Operational Risk expertise
Resumes – Chronological vs. Functional. Which do you prefer?
There are many opinions as to what resume should be used. Which do you prefer and why?
Answers (18)
Bryan C Webb, P. Eng.
► Technical Product Marketing & [...]

Jobs Sites are fairly straight forward web sites. Not as simple as a pure presentation “shop window” web sites, but there is not that much to it.
Three basic types of registered users:

Employers
Job Seekers
Job Board Admin
There is also a very small number of pages:

Home
Search
Advanced Search
Search Results
Full job description
Application form
About / Contact
A few more admin [...]

Ever noticed how hiring graduates based on their CV’s isn’t fun at all? Same CVs, with lots of education all over and no experience, at least not relevant one? Ever got into the situation where you cannot really determine anything relevant in eth CV, and started basing your filtering process solely on the ‘Interests’ [...]