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A company is hiring a blogger / social media person. Senior management have spent a lot of time defining the position. They couldn’t really make up their mind if that is a web (hence IT) position or a marketing position. Number of different people contributed to the job specification. The required skills list had 50 [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Do you or your company use social media networking or social media to support recruitment efforts? 76% plan to invest in employee referrals 72% plan to increase their use of social networks 66% have successfully hired a candidate identified or introduced through an online social network Jobvite also asked employers to list the social networks [...]

After the recent success of the Irish Recruiters LinkedIn Group’s first conference – The Future of Recruitment – Part 1: The Road Ahead, Declan Fitzgerald has been planning already for Part 2, and after repeated requests to hold Part 2 before Christmas, Declan is now aiming for the 18th of November as the time to [...]

Irish Recruiters LinkedIN Group got together in the a form of a Recruitment Conference. It was great to see so many friends together, thank you all for coming! We all need to say a BIG: Thank You to Declan Fitzgerald who organised it all again so well! Pictures? Well this time around I decided I [...]

I just love analyzing the statistical data. Where is a LinkedIN poll: What is the most important new platform for brands to master: Digg, Facebook, iPhone, LinkedIn, Twitter ? Twitter 36% Facebook 29% iPhone 17% LinkedIN 15% Digg 1% Great! Now let’s put this into the perspective. This is a poll on the LinkedIN page. [...]

JobsMarket.ie is a Social Network for recruitment. Here is a how Jobs Market front page describes the jobs sites: Jobs Market works for you! There are three fundamentally bad aspects of the jobs boards: 1. The job boards are selling YOUR data and you gave them it for free. 2. The job board has effectively [...]

Twitter is surprisingly good tool for the recruitment. You can track the conversations and when used in conjunction with LinkedIN or any other tool it shows the real time live activity of the person. As does Facebook. Monster or any other CV database will never tell you that. An application from a job site or [...]

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 [...]

Social Networking, Blogging, Recruitment 2.0, an all the other buzz words do not mean anything until all those technologies are utilised, and utilised properly. It is actually quite easy to embrace it all, or any part of it, and make absolutely nothing. How many web sites, job sites, blogs social networks or internet projects in [...]

Social Networking finally started happening on a proper scale in the recruitment industry in Ireland! What accelerated is that one of the largest US multinationals present here in Ireland made the best person to stimulate the social networking available. Declan Fitzgerald is today the best known blogger on the recruitment topics among Irish employers. Declan [...]