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LinkedIN obviously has some problems in the sales of their jobs advertising in Ireland. Currently there are only 17 jobs advertised in LinkedIN Jobs section. It is Mid January, the time the recruitment season is normally in the full swing in Ireland. Microsoft is there as they always are there present with a job or [...]

Monster is all about their new site. That isn’t actaully available. And will not be available this year. That does not stop them advertising it for the last couple of months. They started sounding a bit like Microsoft advertising their Vista. A lot of hipe, for a long, long time, but the result is… Well [...]

I guess some people will say I like writing about the Irish Jobs boards. The funny thing is that there is so many popping out, it is almost every week you hear about a new one. This is just in the last month or so: TheJobs.ie, JobisJob.ie, Jobs2do.ie aka Spamers, Monster Finance, urHired So here [...]

Any SEO Consultant will tell you that a decent SEO project should somewhere in its starting phase have a step called Keyword Analysis. Unfortunately different people have a quite different idea what exactly does the Keyword Analysis mean. Some mean that it is about finding the most relevant keywords, some that it is about the [...]

Jobs2Do seams to heave really lots to do to get someone to apply for those jobs now. Google PR2 Job2do.ie has a traffic rank of: 3,469,434 Google showing 1 link to their site? Hum…. A bit unusual approach for the Jobs Board. One would assume a lot of people visiting the web site, but Job2Do [...]

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 [...]

A few years ago I had a web site called Ireland Jobs. The domain was IrelandJobs.ie. It was actually a really nice web site. Here is some artwork from it: Ireland Jobs Logo: Ireland Jobs Banner: Ireland Jobs Rectangle: Ireland Jobs Banner Long Like them? I do!

Larry Heiman wrote a nice blog post: Recruiting is a Marketing Task Here is the part where he explains the Marketing processes applied to the recruitment, and sourcing to help you find that right candidate for the your jobs: As an enlightened business owner, you understand the importance of doing market research on your prospective [...]

An Online Recruitment Jobs Fair has several advantages over a Traditional Recruitment Fair. Jobs Fair for Recruiters More convenient: No staffing required. More effective: Lasts for two weeks instead of a few hours. More cost-effective: Cheaper than holding an actual job fair. No material, travel, food and accommodation costs. More targeted: Targeted at specific industries/audiences. [...]

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 [...]

Are you an Irish Recruitment Agency? If so – read on! There is a freebie for you here! There is the ‘Hard to Believe’ fact that not a single Recruitment Agency web site have ever managed to appear on the first page in Google.ie for the simple search phrase ‘Jobs’. Basically here: http://www.google.ie/search?&q=jobs One would [...]

It’s official: American companies are NOT in Ireland for tax reasons. Well, at last according to John Roberts the CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM confirmed yesterday: John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of commercial, open source, Silicon Valley firm SugarCRM, which has its European headquarters in Dublin, will be heading to the inaugural Irish Web Technology [...]

Multilingual Sales Representative If you re are the Multilingual Sales Representative you should know that ServiceSource announced the creation of over 100 multi-lingual professional sales positions. The company, which is a specialised sales organisation focused on increasing service share and revenue for high-tech and healthcare firms, currently employs 175 staff at its facility in Cherrywood, [...]

Year 2008 started funny for the Job Boards in Ireland. Job boards started understanding that the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the core of their business. The reason the big job boards understood the y need to invest in SEO is because the year 2007 was the year where a largest number of the niche [...]

Will a good blog make you a magnet for a good job offers? Tom is the IT guy, who writes his blog for a few years not. His experience does not really show that having a good blog will make you attractive to the Irish recruiters. Is Irish recruitment industry a bit ‘Old Fashioned’, and [...]