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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 ability to connect all those channels together. Ad your friends [...]

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
Grainne Martin, Ex-MD of Computer [...]

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 [...]

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 12,000-strong sector.
Many [...]

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 will mail you [...]

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 site where recruiters [...]

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’…. :)

Tuesday Club Irish Recruiters Ivan’s (www.SEOConsultant.ie) photos from the night. PS. Thanks for all your feedback on: http://www.recruitmentmarketingmanager.com/ ! :)

Declan Fitzgerald – the organiser of Irish Recruiters – First Tuesday
Declan Fitzgerald – the organiser of [...]

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 [...]

Recruit Ireland found itself an a bit funny situation this month. On one hand they are the main sponsor of the National Recruitment Federation Conference later this week. The NRF is the association of the Irish Recruitment Agencies, and most of them are actually Recruit Ireland’s paying clients. On the other hand Recruit Ireland has [...]

Irish recruitment agency Brightwaters online poll for January 2009 was:
Are we as a nation too hard on ourselves?

David Bloch, CEO of the Brightwater Group comments:
Until now I have gone with the “ask the audience” answer, but not this time. I think the Irish are too hard on themselves!
I am speaking as a person who [...]

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 [...]