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Here is a list of jobs advertised on the leading Irish job sites and the recruitment agency web sites. Job Boards Irish Jobs 12253 Recruit Ireland 3350 Monster 2969 Jobs 2800 Irish Times 1883 Employ Ireland 1339 Recruitment Agencies CPL 1340 Brightwater 1291 Morgan McKinley 1178 Sigmar 671 Stelfox 627 Grafton 228 Manpower 183 Irish [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Monster Virtual Jobs Fair – did you register jet?

Monster is interested in what job seekers think of their jobs web site. Here is the mail sent to job hunters today: SATISFIED? LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK Dear Job Seeker, At Monster, we are committed to creating an online experience that advances your life and your career. To help us achieve this, we [...]

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 [...]

Today’s announcement from one of the leading jobs sites in Ireland nicely describes what does a jobs scene look in Ireland today: Hi All Just a quick note to let you know we have now added some new locations; Europe Australia United Arab Emirates New Zealand Canada USA South Africa North Africa Middle East If [...]

It is interesting to see how the overpriced Irish jobs sites started reducing their prices drastically. I just saw this ad this morning, and I still think they should reduce it much, much more, but at least it is a step in the right direction… Perhaps a too small step and too late?

Monster recruitment website is making an interesting habit of being hacked regularly. The latest hack on Friday (January 23, 2009) was interestingly managed from Monster. They posted the note on their web site that included the following: We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster [...]

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 [...]

I am not entirely sure what does the logo represent, but I am afraid it stands quite well in the internal competition we used to have in the company – who will make the worst logo for a job site. The www.Jobs-Ireland.ie logo used to be in the lead, but Monster Finance is really quite [...]

Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is furthering his goal of taking newspaper services online with Tribute.com, a website for the bereaved. Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you’ll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a [...]