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When you put one of the best speakers on the recruitment topic Peter Costgrove, into one of the best venues Science Gallery in Trinity College, you get what you got yesterday – probably the best Irish Recruitment Social Media Event so far. And as we all know there is plenty of them lately. Everyone who [...]

Dara O’Briain defined how wrong one can be in the eyes of the Irish low as: 1. there is all this stuff which comes under: That’s grand 2. then it moves into: Ah now don’t push it 3. … and finally it comes under: Right now you’re takin the piss, and that’s when the police [...]

It is funny to watch the traffic on a job site – when you remove the jobs from it! This is a short history of the Jobs Site for Dublin Airports new Terminal 2. The site goes live with the Boom announcement on TV (11,461 visitors immediately). The next day all the national media covers [...]

There is more than a ten of Irish jobs sites that advertise themselves as free Irish jobs sites. Advertising the jobs is free. Some of them would then try to charge if a recruiter or employer tries to engage with the job candidate, and most of them would just send the job applications and CVs [...]

Best Agency Online Service – small agency– Recruiters Best Agency Online Service – large agency – Grafton Recruitment Recruitment Consultant of the Year – small agency – Michelle Kilcar (CCP Recruitment) Recruiter of the Year – large agency– Martin Fox, (Robert Walters) Best In Practice – Healthcare – Servisource Best in Practice – Accounting & [...]

… when all the personal branding channels are combined. In no particular order: 1. Social networks presence – descriptive public profile combined with the active participation in discussions. 2. Personal Blog 3. Presence on the Corporate Blog 4. Any online publication (indexed by Google) The real power of all your online presence is in the [...]

Resumark brought in a nice new business model in the online recruitment industry. The concept is essentially borrowed from the Google AdWords – Google AdSense model. While Google pays the web site owners to show the Google AdSense on their sites and charges the Google AdWords clients to pay per click for those same adverts [...]

National Recruitment Federation (NRF) is launching its Recruitment Industry Awards 2009, a gala awards ceremony on Friday, 2nd October 2009 at The Four Seasons Hotel, will once again be presented by RTE’s Pamela Flood. Judges: Mark Fielding, CEO ISME, Kirsty Kirkwood, former European Head of Staffing, State Street Sean O’Meara, Former Chief Executive, Young Advertising [...]

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 [...]

By Anne-Marie Walsh Industry correspondent, Monday June 15 2009 OVER a third of recruiters have lost their own jobs, due to the record hike in unemployment. The industry dedicated to matching vacancies with workers has itself been decimated over the last 12 months with a total of 4,500 jobs lost in what was once a [...]

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 [...]

Life must be good in the Recruitment sector in Ireland! Irish Internet Association have chosen the best Internet Entrepreneur of 2009: Andrew Molony – GreenJobs Ltd GreenJobs is a jobs site with companies that want to brand themselves as green companies. Jobs boards are easy to do. You just need to: make a fairly simple [...]

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 [...]

Irish Recruiters – First Tuesday The photos are in the reverse order. For no apparent reason. A bit ‘Up side Down’…. :) [salbumphotos=1,144,3,y,y,title desc]